Hell Quote by Neal Stephenson

“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

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

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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 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

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

— Matthew McConaughey

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

“The most lasting thing from my linguistics education is SpecGram..”

— Trey Jones

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 joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and…

— Daniel Everett

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

— Ishaan Khatter