"I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation."

-- Steven Pinker

#Memories Quotes #Years Quotes #Verbs Quotes

“Coming upon a space that sounds unique and incredible is just the best feeling.”
“The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.”
“If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.”
“God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.”
“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”
“If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart.”
“I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.”
“Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.”

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