Boroditsky Article Quotes & Sayings

To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it. — Lee Gutkind

The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors. — Walter Karp

Personal Construct Therapy was the pioneer of a fully constructivist psychology, emphasizing that people are essentially like scientists in continually developing meanings and explanations of the world, which are employed to guide action and decision making. — Jacqui Stedmon

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say. — Lauryn Hill

All right," I said. "But from now on, every time you show me a dead body, I'm having sex with Eric. — Jennifer Echols

Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder. — Samuel Johnson

everything you've ever experienced in your 'real' life was your brain's interpretation of your sensory inputs. — Dima Zales

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society. — David Blunkett

You can begin to learn. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most. — Conor Oberst

Life itself and who people actually are can be greatly reflected in how they dance. And I don't mean how good you are. I mean your willingness to dance. You can kinda tell if you go to a house party and there's this group of people over here who are too cool for school and they're over here and they're like 'oh those people are dancing so ew. So weird that they're like dancing'. Those people, I don't feel like, are having as good a time as the people they're making fun of. The people who don't care how they look dancing cause they like dancing. Basically, I love the idea that you can tell who someone is by how they dance. — Taylor Swift

I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly — Oscar Wilde

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it. — Barack Obama

To me, still being considered a kid, it can't be too much to ask. We should have the same rights as adults did when they were young. — Richard Louv

I tell you hopeless grief is passionless,
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness
In souls, as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy dead in silence like to death
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet;
If it could weep, it could arise and go. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning