Quotes About Sociolinguistics

#1. I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

William Labov

#2. In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#3. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

Olive Schreiner

#5. Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Jacques Lacan

#6. Barbara rearranged herself on the blanket, and the crowd howled a mass downward arpeggio when Enfield took the ball back. It's all right, it's okay, you're gonna work for us someday, rose the cheer from the Sheffield side.

Stephanie Clifford

#7. The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost.

Tommy Morrison

#8. What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?'

Ray William Johnson

#9. After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

Hjalmar Schacht

#10. There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.

Kevin Rudd

#11. I love to be awful. There's nothing wrong with being awful.

Elena Roger

#12. I'd laughed this high-pitched, witchy laugh, and looked right at him. Mostly, I remember feeling vital and untouchable, like I was free and separate from him. I would never be him, and because of that, I would never be lonely or laughed at, and I would never have to worry about anything.

Brenna Yovanoff

#13. Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

David Lange

#14. I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

Carol Burnett