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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. -- Anne Rice
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! -- Amber Valletta
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. -- Gilbert Murray
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated. -- Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. -- James Merrill
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces. -- Alice Oswald
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. -- Robert Fitzgerald
In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past. -- Ismail Kadare
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin. -- Vitruvius
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background. -- David Crystal
I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored? -- Quincy Jones
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks. -- Raymond Moody
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. -- Victor Hugo
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway. -- Sarah Monette
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love -- Rumi
Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man. -- Edward Gibbon
Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. -- W. H. Auden
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. -- Allan Bloom
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify. -- J. B. Bury
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. -- Edward Gibbon
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either. -- William Jones
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature. -- G. H. Hardy

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