David Crystal Quotes

The structural properties of the language are many and complex, but at least they are finite and fairly easy to identify: there are only so many sounds, letters, and grammatical constructions, and although there is a huge vocabulary, at least the units are determinate and manageable.

David Crystal

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• I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Weird
  • Sound
  • Producer

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Swimming

• It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Family
  • Why
  • Want

• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Mean
  • Achievement
  • Canada

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Understand
  • Innovation
  • Top

• At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Design
  • Chance

• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Think
  • Same
  • Plants

• Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Terrorism
  • Tongue
  • Lens

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • God
  • Different

• I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Feeling
  • Model

• The decision to become an individual, to allow oneself to be moved by the deepest impulses of the self rather than the social consensus, can only be made with fear and trembling.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Fear
  • Decision

• The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

  

  Joseph Murray
  • Rejection
  • Skin
  • Distinguish

• 'You're such a liar.''But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?' She flashed her best smile at her friend.'I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,' her friend answered. 'Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • Secret

• The structural properties of the language are many and complex, but at least they are finite and fairly easy to identify: there are only so many sounds, letters, and grammatical constructions, and although there is a huge vocabulary, at least the units are determinate and manageable.

  

  David Crystal