Cognitive Linguistic Quotes

#1. It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.

George Mikes

#2. Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.

Rumi

#3. I could practically hear the unspoken 'good girl' accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet.

Melissa Aragon

#4. Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' ... 'you need to protect this victory.'

Pope Francis

#5. Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

Rich Cohen

#6. I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Bernard Berenson

#7. I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy ... it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.

Sarah Smith

#8. I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

Golan Levin

#9. Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. The driver is going over it with a chamois, lovingly. This at least hasn't changed, the way men caress good cars. He's

Margaret Atwood

#11. Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

Cat Zingano

#12. Anxiety is not normal. Believe it or not, you were NOT designed to live distressed or be consumed by mental uneasiness.

Rene Vidal

#13. The question is whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. Certainly,

Noam Chomsky

#14. A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.

Kevin McCloud

#15. He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

Ian McEwan