Thisfaculty Quotes & Sayings

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language. — Noam Chomsky

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. — Jane Austen

While much of her true name lay beyond my knowledge of the Noongar language, as the minutes passed I understood that her name was also a history of her people, a sort of Bayeux Tapestry that bound myth with loves, births, deaths; hunts, battles, journeys; droughts, fires, storms; and names of every host within whose body Moombaki had sojourned. — David Mitchell

For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. — Gregory David Roberts

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.' — Jennifer Ehle

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination. — Stephen Covey

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. — Thomas Jefferson

I practice Buddhism, so I meditate daily, which helps keep me centered and reminds me not to get my knickers in a twist over the things that are not within my control. There is a saying: "If it can be changed, then no need to worry; if it can't be changed, then no need to worry!" — Rosie Fellner

Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Remember that the Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ways; He came to remove the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and, at last, the presence of sin. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell! — Edmund Clarence Stedman

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds. — Anthony Anderson

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely. — Ted Williams

Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard. — George R R Martin