Linguistic Quotes

82 Linguistic quotes by 71 unique authors

Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because… — Jeffrey Kluger
There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy… — Jeffrey Kluger
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic… — Alfred Korzybski
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
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson
Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words. — Helen Fisher
When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic:… — John Green
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter
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
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… — 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

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