Killoran Law Quotes & Sayings

Nor does linguistics need the nominal blessing of science. It is some sort of systematic, truth-seeking, knowledge-making enterprise, and as long as it brings home the epistemic bacon by turning up results about language, the label isn't terribly important. Etymology is helpful in this regard: science is a descendant of a Latin word for knowledge, and it is only the knowledge that matters. — Randy Allen Harris

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom. — Miyamoto Musashi

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives. — John Gabriel Stedman

Make work a purpose, not just a place. — Tom Rath

Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs ... by their perception. — Tony Robbins

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her. — Linda Lavin

I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws. — Ray Dalio

The wise person acts but does not take credit. Leads, but does not rule. — Lao-Tzu

I've never cared whether I shock people because I think people shocked by the truth are not deserving of the truth. The truth is something one has to deserve — Tennessee Williams

One benefit of government work? Frequent flyer miles. Seriously, I get bumped up about every flight. Still not as nice as the director's private jet though... — Nathan Edmondson

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration. — Peter Redgrove

Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes. — Shreya Ghoshal

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music. — Moby

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho