Linguist Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater. — Donald Rumsfeld
I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina. — KatÃ³ Lomb
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter… — Moses Mendelssohn
A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that… — John Edensor Littlewood
Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but… — David Crystal
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time. — David Crystal
I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom. — Ronald Reagan
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer. — John McWhorter
A cunning linguist puts his money where his mouth is. — Rock Cowles

Who Wrote These Linguist Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 13 Linguist Quotes as follows: