Edward Sapir Quotes

Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.

Edward Sapir

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• Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Different
  • Why
  • Film

• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Internet
  • Might
  • Holocaust

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Corruption

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Important
  • Free
  • Fair

• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Beginning

• I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

  

  Edith Wharton

• A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Such a stupid act. Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn’t win medals but wars.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Experience
  • Imagination
  • Stupid

• What grace could all your worldly power bringTo One whose crown of thorns has made him King,The Christ who gave His body to the flails,Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails?Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Power
  • Fear
  • King

• You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

  

  Cornel West
  • People

• Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Money
  • Future

• I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I get beat up on every project.

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • Projects
  • Beats

• Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn

• The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so.

  

  Rich Eisen
  • Think
  • Leader
  • Champion

• Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.

  

  Edward Sapir