Linguist Funny Quotes & Sayings

How much does an elephant weigh? — Rhonda Patton

There's nothing to be scared of, right Akhol?"
He said nothing as he stepped toward the rushing water that rolled around a big rock and was swallowed whole by impenetrable darkness.
"Right?" Andrew repeated, his voice swallowed by the sound of rushing water.
Akhol didn't respond again. He tapped a foot above the water before he stepped in and disappeared beneath the surface in one fluid motion. — Laura Kreitzer

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves; — Anthony Powell

The most dangerous truth a Confessor knows is that the rules of society are just consensual hallucinations. Choosing to wake up from the dream means choosing to end your life. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian. — Nicolas Cage

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker. — Jason Chaffetz

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. — Herodotus

I grew up in motion. I have never lived outside the Southwest, yet in my childhood I rarely had the same home or lived in the same state for more than a year or two at a time. Well before adulthood I believed that all was right with the world only when I was standing at the brink of every possibility, a voyage not yet taken unraveling before me. — Craig Childs

You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater. — Donald Rumsfeld

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne