Death Sentences

Famous quotes containing the words death and/or sentences:

“If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“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)