There is no linguistic war in Montreal.

I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity…

— David Crystal

“Accident: The Crash of Avianca Flight 052,” International Journal of Aviation Psychology 4, no. 3 (1994): 265–284. The linguistic indirectness”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

— David Crystal

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

— Victor Pelevin

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does…

— Daniel Alarcon

“Every world has its distinct lingo, you gotta catch the right chord. Same language evokes different feelings, based on time and age of the…

— Abhijit Naskar

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

— Mahavira

Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it…

— Gao Xingjian

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic -…

— Joseph Brodsky

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

— Roman Jakobson

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

— Theodor Adorno

“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better or more…

— David Crow

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

— Robert Morgan