Quotes About Universal Grammar

#1. It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Noam Chomsky

#2. Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

Jonathan Shapiro

#3. Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

Richard Powers

#4. How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I've got a cousin who is 18 ... Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.

Bo Burnham

#5. When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

Brice Marden

#6. The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Carolyn Maloney

#7. Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Debbie Macomber

#8. Fear of the power you believe someone or something has over you is nothing but a jail cell you choose to walk into.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

David A. Bednar

#10. It's not over until you win

Les Brown

#11. I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.

Faraaz Kazi

#12. I spend a lot of time talking to young and emerging producers on Twitter, feeding back thoughts and encouraging them.

Tiesto

#13. I sighed, he sighed, the wind and flowers sighed too. I think those marble statues sighed along as well, in their lack of understanding the human condition

V.C. Andrews

#14. I have the backbone of an eel.

Betty White

#15. I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

P.J. Harvey

#16. To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom.

Thomas A Kempis