Kenneth L. Pike Quotes
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Quotes to Explore
-
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
-
You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
-
I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
-
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
-
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
-
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
-
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
-
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
-
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
-
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-
I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
-
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
-
I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
-
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
-
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
-
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
-
I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
-
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
-
It's not about having enough time, it's about making enough time.
-
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.
-
Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.
-
Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.
-
I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.
-
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
