We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“MANY believe in what others say. Don't analyse the meaning of words, nor the whole sentences, phrases or other linguistic classifications” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Should data be treated as a language, as fundamental to our existence as our linguistic substrates?” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. — Mahavira Copy Share Image
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Accident: The Crash of Avianca Flight 052,” International Journal of Aviation Psychology 4, no. 3 (1994): 265–284. The linguistic indirectness” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better… — David Crow Copy Share Image
“Every world has its distinct lingo, you gotta catch the right chord. Same language evokes different feelings, based on time and age… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as… — Carl Elliott Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.' — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English. — Henry Sweet Copy Share Image
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll… — The Edge Copy Share Image
