Boroditsky Does Language Quotes & Sayings

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion). — Phil Ehart

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers. — Walter E. Williams

As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine. — Sigourney Weaver

That no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived. — Jojo Moyes

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. — Jimmy Wales

I never really had much of an interest in fashion. — David Bowie

Listen, days decay, like food, like fish,
like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget. — Chigozie Obioma

To have a second language is to have a second soul," said Charlemagne around 800 AD. "Each language has its own cognitive toolkit," said psychologist/linguist Lera Boroditsky in 2010 AD. — Stewart Brand

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella. — Charles Dickens

Was that it was perhaps the one place in this country — Terry Pratchett

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready. — Bill Bradley

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself. — Tibor Benedek

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare

God's mission for the family is expanding God's family. — Ann Dunagan