Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Kenneth L. Pike

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• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Effort
  • Creative
  • Inequality

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Demand
  • Washed

• It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Country
  • Hell
  • Go

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Future
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Growing
  • City
  • Government

• Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Feel
  • How

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

  

  Halsey
  • Desperate
  • Bisexual
  • Bipolar

• To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Friends
  • Energy

• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Good

• There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • People
  • Live
  • True

• A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Work
  • Money
  • Character

• It's hard to align with money if you think that it is evil and nasty. But once you come to an understanding that money is neutral, it's easy to see that having money does not necessarily deprive somebody else. There's no reason why you can't be very rich and still be an extremely spiritual and wonderfully generous person-aligned to the God Force-with a huge heart, and compassion for everyone you meet.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Evil

• Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

  

  Darby Conley
  • Ethics
  • Annoying
  • Principle

• When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Up
  • Time

• He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you.

  

  Wilhelm Grimm
  • Trouble
  • Helped
  • Despised

• Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike