George Lakoff Quotes
Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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You never forget where you come from.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
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When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.
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Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.
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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
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Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.
