Kukowski Foundation Quotes & Sayings

The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion. — James Gleick

Conscience is wiser than science. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "what is truth as such," and with regard to reality, not what things are or what and how is that which is, but for what reason that X which we call Being is in the Universe, and with regard to knowledge we must not ask for its bases and limits - as Plato, Aristotle Descartes, Kant did - but for something which comes before all this: for what reason we concern ourselves with trying to know. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem? — Francesca Lia Block

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. — Geraldo Rivera

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time. — Janice Markowitz

That's the beauty of the summer holidays. It's as if life is just a big Etch-a-Sketch, and once a year you get to shake it vigorously up and down and start again. — Holly Smale

My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails. — Dominic Monaghan

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal. — Jane Pauley