Michael Dirda Quotes

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

Michael Dirda

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LearningCommunicationWorldLanguage

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

John Ortberg

LifeConfidenceLiveGodJobJoy

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Jeff Greenfield

MeThinkVotingChoicePersonal

The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warming is for a rain shower.

Sonny Perdue

RainHomeworkResponsibleQuestion

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

Tracy Morgan

GirlBrotherSisterBornGuyMiddle

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

CharacterFocusDoingBackGoJokes

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

Dinah Manoff

PeopleLaughCryWantMoveMake

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

Donna Shalala

DanceFunPeopleLookingAlcohol

The act of riding a bicycle isn't causing brain trauma. Yeah, you could fall, but that's if something goes wrong. Everything could go right in football, and it's still dangerous.

Chris Borland

FootballBrainBicycleYouFallGo

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

Brad Thor

LifeSchoolBlessedMy LifeTeachers

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Bruce Dickinson

InspirationalEngineeringInteresting

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

MotherMeMomGiftYouI Can

From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.

Shawn Amos

ArtistCareerSeriousSoundClub

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