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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. -- Edward Sapir
If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff? -- Mario Pei
Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly. -- Hudson Taylor
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language. -- Bayard Taylor
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. -- Anne Rice
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. -- Aravind Adiga
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. -- Robyn Davidson
There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun. -- Shia LaBeouf
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. -- Roman Jakobson
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. -- Anna Seward
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. -- Aristotle
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school. -- Carrie Coon
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. -- Thad Cochran
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. -- Marilyn Hacker
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. -- Camille Paglia
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children. -- Polykarp Kusch
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on. -- Ronald Frame
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language. -- Alexander Pushkin
The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step. -- Leonard Bloomfield
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. -- Northrop Frye
She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored. -- Natalie Standiford
The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message. -- Nick Morgan
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. -- Charlton Laird
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore. -- Evelyn Waugh
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this. -- Criss Jami
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] -- Northrop Frye

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