quotes about Linguistics

last updated: November 28, 2023

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

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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

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“I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.”
“Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.”
“In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.”
“With great power comes great responsibilty.”

Source : "Spider-Man". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“I didn't write. I just wandered about.”
“Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.”
“A boat can't have two captains.”
“To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.”

Source : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Song 5, st. 30, transl. by A. B. Faust, New York: F. S. Crofts, p. 326, 1940.
“Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.”
“I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.”