Ballerina Quote by Kató Lomb

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 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 can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication.…

— Daniel Keyes

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

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows…

— David Crystal

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

— Samuel R. Delany

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

— Minna Antrim

“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

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a…

— Moses Mendelssohn

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?

— Triple H

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for…

— Ferdinand de Saussure