Linguaphile Quotes & Sayings

A favorite Palestinian tactic was to set up a couple of cannons or rocket launchers in a Christian village, fire a few rounds into Israel, and then quickly withdraw, knowing that Israel's return fire would fall on innocent Christian civilians. — Brigitte Gabriel

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
My head in my hands down on my knees — Stevie Nicks

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina. — Kato Lomb

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. — Robert Wyatt

I know so much about other people's expectations and so little about my own. — Martin Pistorius

Use each moment to make another's eyes sparkle and to warm a heart. — Doreen Virtue

Stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me. — Jodee Blanco

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. — Fritz Reiner

A blast of whooshing pleasure swept through me and I fell over the other side, into sweet currents of relaxing little judders. The gentleman pulled away and I lay there still sprawled and used. I didn't care. I'd been indoctrinated in the ways of the flesh and my exposure to it was like a drug. — Sarah Michelle Lynch