Linguistic Quotes

82 Linguistic quotes by 71 unique authors

What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
â€¦ the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living elementâ€¦ — Derek Walcott
You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in… — Gao Xingjian
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats… — Henry Miller
When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning… — Madeline Miller
Try not to live in a linguistic slum. — Susan Sontag
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. — Paul de Man
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.… — Joseph Brodsky
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb… — Charles Baudelaire
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great… — Unknown Author
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as… — Aldous Huxley
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder… — Kathryn Schulz
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the… — Daniel Everett
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones. — Peter Capaldi
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and… — 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
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of… — John Wesley Powell
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English. — Henry Sweet
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the… — A. N. Wilson
There is no linguistic war in Montreal. — Pierre Moreau

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