From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber
Its a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think youll be amused by its presumption. – James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. – James Thurber
Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973