#ling

It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today. ↗

— Terry Crowley

#language #linguistics #attitude

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it. ↗

— Emmanuelle Riva

#clings #essence #leaves #life #love

People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#anything #get #minutes #people #their

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. ↗

— Alain Robert

#believe #i #i believe #i believe in #modern

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. ↗

— Alain Robert

#danger #element #even #faces #feeling

If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#investigate #want #will #willing #you

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#beginning #draw #end #ending #eventually

I am unique...I play by a different set of rules; I am not intimidated by anything. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#dreams #fulfilling-purpose #inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much. ↗

— Gary Ross

#exciting #find #force #forces #go

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

#cosmic rays #experiences #feeling #field #generated