Linguistically Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is…
— Patricia J. Williams
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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the…
— Cathleen Schine
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And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one…
— Rosamund Lupton
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Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves…
— John Ralston Saul
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Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
— David Crystal
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I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
— Keith Gessen
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The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit…
— E. J. Dionne
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I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
— David Gilmour
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We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial…
— Cornel West
Who Wrote These Linguistically Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Linguistically Quotes as follows: