Quotes About Linguistic Intelligence

#1. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#2. Stay where you are." It's a raspy male voice. A whiskey voice or just someone who took a hit to the throat hard enough that it never healed right. There are six other guys behind him. All are armed with homemade blades, morning stars, and slings. "Who

Richard Kadrey

#3. Human spoken language seems to be
adventitious. The exploitation of organ systems with other functions for communication in humans is also indicative of the comparatively recent evolution of our linguistic abilities.

Carl Sagan

#4. The normal man of intelligence has something of a contempt for linguistic studies, convinced as he is nothing can well be more useless. Edward Sapir - 1924

Guy Deutscher

#5. We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

Fergus Henderson

#6. And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

William Shakespeare

#7. What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.

Gerry McGovern

#8. Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday level. I don't think anyone has ever managed to tap that on the screen - it would actually be too shocking.

Helen Mirren

#9. Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.

Donald Trump

#10. I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes ... put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

#11. The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

William Temple