Noam Chomsky Linguistic Quotes

#1. Most of the people I have really cared about in this world, I have elected to the position. I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.

Thomas Berger

#2. The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.

Noam Chomsky

#3. White women have a black belt in the fake smile.

Khaya Dlanga

#4. Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.

Thea Harrison

#5. Do you know what happened to Teacup?"
"Ran away with the spoon, what I heard.

Rick Yancey

#6. The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#7. Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.

Stefan Emunds

#8. I am content in bachelor life, but at moments like this, I admit to old-fashioned sexist longing. Sometimes I cook up comfort food, but cooking your own comfort food is akin to scratching your own back. Same sensation, less watts.

Michael Perry

#9. There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

Todor Zhivkov

#10. Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

Bill Parcells

#11. 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