Liguistics Quotes & Sayings

Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event. — Nancy Kress

She has embarrassingly inquired, of her children, whether there's a woman in his life, and has rejoiced at hearing no. Not because she doesn't want him to be happy, not because she has any right or even much inclination to be jealous anymore, but because it means there's some shadow of a chance that he still thinks, as she does more than ever, that they were not just the worst thing that ever happened to each other, they were also the best thing. — Jonathan Franzen

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler

I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent. — Charlie Munger

Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions. — Patrick Suskind

If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the
things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!"
He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights. — Georgette Heyer

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do. — Laura Schlessinger

To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I've got a problem or what it is that I am "looking at." And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am "Get Him! — Demetri Martin

I have never been more excited than I am today about making pictures. — Ed Kashi

The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and — Jon Krakauer

You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?' — Travis Kalanick

He'd put up with me a lot longer than I would have put up with me, that was certain. — Kristen Ashley

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don't have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn't a global 911 to call. — Charles Eisenstein

Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and living next to other people can "contaminate" two others, and these two, four others, etc. Since lay Christians number not only tens of thousands like the clergy but hundreds of millions, they can truly play a decisive role in spreading the beneficial light of the gospel in the world. — Raniero Cantalamessa

natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science. — Doris Bradbury