Bible Quote by Daniel Everett

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

— Ishaan Khatter

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of…

— Daniel Everett

“Everyone stared at me now. I’d studied linguistics a long time ago. A little philology too, the study of languages from analyzing texts. Mostly…

— Jeffery Deaver

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

— Emma Bonino

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I…

— Clive James

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

— Anna Held

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd…

— George Carlin

I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are…

— Neal Stephenson

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary.…

— Paul Engle

My mother was a professor of English and History.

— Sonu Sood

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case…

— Daniel Keyes

I went with my very being toward language.

— Paul Celan