Admire Quote by Daniel Keyes

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

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

— Minna Antrim

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

— Helen Fisher

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

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a…

— Edward R. Murrow

Men's language is as their lives.

— Seneca the Younger

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

“The job was a sign of his failings. In his youth he’d been a devoted scholar of foreign languages, the owner of an impressive…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and…

— John Millington Synge