Famous Quotes & Sayings

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Kenneth Koch

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Kerry King

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

Kerry King

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

Kerry King

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.

Kerry King

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

Kerry King

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

Jose Marti

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

James Allen

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Cash Penney

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

James Thurber

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

James Thurber

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Julianne Moore

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Kate Winslet

I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who absolutely believes in exposing herself.

Katherine Dunham

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.

Katherine Dunham

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.

Katherine Dunham

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

Katherine Dunham

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

Katharine Whitehorn

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.