Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotes

Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Work
- Quality
- Complexity
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

L. Sprague de Camp
- Writing
- Plan
- Detail
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Quintilian
- Evil
- Broken
- Habits
None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

W. Bruce Cameron
- People
- Kids
- Together
Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

Camren Bicondova
- World
- Batman
- Before
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

Harold Prince
- You
- Couple
- Years