Best Linguist Quotes

#1. Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

Michele Bachmann

#3. I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.

Elizabeth Bear

#4. I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn

#5. We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.

E. J. W. Barber

#6. Compartmentalize

Mike Barrett

#7. I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

Cheech Marin

#8. You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

Chris Gethard

#9. I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

Clive James

#10. The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#11. To have a second language is to have a second soul," said Charlemagne around 800 AD. "Each language has its own cognitive toolkit," said psychologist/linguist Lera Boroditsky in 2010 AD.

Stewart Brand

#12. internal and external

Sohaib Sultan

#13. The church doesn't belong to the pastor; it belongs to Jesus Christ.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

Bill Bryson

#15. Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also head and pubic hair ignited, shot, muzzle in mouth. Three bullets recovered, 45 calibre."
Villani: "So you can't rule out an accident?

Peter Temple

#16. I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage.

Sarah Hepola

#17. I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Ronald Reagan

#18. You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten

Be my linguist

Turn me
into your words.

Banoo Zan

#19. My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Marilyn Hacker

#20. It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

Jan Peacock

#21. A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

#22. It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

Cormac McCarthy

#23. As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

John McWhorter

#24. linguist called Alla who advised us, among other things, to treat our more stupid students with sympathy, "as if they had cancer." While

Elif Batuman

#25. A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

John Edensor Littlewood

#26. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

David Crystal

#27. As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

Larry Wall

#28. To money, the finest linguist in the world!

Minna Antrim

#29. A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

Roman Jakobson

#30. I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

Kato Lomb

#31. The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.

Steven Pinker

#32. You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

Donald Rumsfeld