Linguists Quotes

#1. A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells ... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

Tony Hoare

#2. From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

F. Sionil Jose

#3. Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

Jeffrey Kluger

#4. When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover
lie down with
grammarians and linguists?
I said nothing
to the woman I loved
but gathered
love's adjectives into a suitcase
and fled from all languages.

Nizar Qabbani

#5. (If you've been puzzled by the name !Kung Bushman, the exclamation mark is not an expression of premature astonishment; it's just how linguists denote a click.)

Jared Diamond

#6. 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

#7. Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can't make it go where it doesn't want to go.

Rosalie Maggio

#8. Linguists aim to describe language while teachers prescribe how English or any other language should be properly used.

Adrian J. Williams

#9. Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

John Le Carre

#10. People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

John McWhorter

#11. True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

David O. McKay

#12. My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Steven Pinker

#13. I came to believe that God has reserved the office of elder for men, and I came to this conclusion not because of what my church taught or because of cultural trends but because of intense personal study of Scripture and the work of biblical scholars and linguists much wiser and more skilled than I.

Anonymous

#14. For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.

Jeff VanderMeer

#15. Linguists traditionally observe that esteemed writers have been using they as a gender-neutral pronoun for almost a thousand years. As far back as the 1400s, in the Sir Amadace story, one finds the likes of Iche mon in thayre degree ("Each man in their degree").

John McWhorter

#16. Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk.

Ronald W. Langacker

#17. All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

Susan Ertz

#18. There are as many approaches as there are families, but linguists have defined three main ones with infinite variations: The one-parent-one-language approach, the minority language at home approach, and the mixed language approach.

Annika Bourgogne

#19. But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

Sarah Waters

#20. I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

Daniel Cudmore

#21. What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

John F. Kennedy

#22. Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Robert Warshow

#23. It was the kind of love you read in the books and watched in the movies. Instant. Epic. Glorious. And I know there's nothing perfect in this world, but I swear, at that time, it was a perfect love.

Paige Gray

#24. Keep smiling, I tell myself. It's all good. That's what my wrist tattoo says and you only ink permanent words on your person if you plan to live by them.

J.C. Lillis

#25. When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.

Ken Hutcherson

#26. I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

#27. I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Adele

#28. Granamyr doesn't fight humans, Granamyr wins.

Larry DiTillio

#29. Hunger
You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.

Carew Papritz

#30. The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.

Richard Branson

#31. The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Bradbury