Famous quotes containing the words romance, languages, linguistic and/or features:
“Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the ‘creativity of language,’ that is, the speaker’s ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are ‘familiar.’”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
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