"Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say â€¦ that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species."

-- Geoffrey K. Pullum

#Marine Quotes #Royal Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.”
“As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.”
“An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.”

Source : "Best New Designers: Meet Johan Lindeberg (Again)". Interview with Andrew Richdale, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.
“Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.”
“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.”

Source : "In their own words". www.cnn.com. December 20, 1996.
“There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not even a man anymore, and they get kind of feminized and weird and they have this longing for this animal, brutal part of themselves to come back. Love does something to men.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.”

Source : "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com.

You may also like:

E. B. White
Writer
Geoffrey Nunberg
Professor
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
William Strunk, Jr.
Professor
Ben Zimmer
Linguist