Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go away. And it flies out of some region of his brain and it goes out into the ether. And usually it's on the realm of media.

Popular Topics
Love You, Leadership, Thought, Education, Positive, Snows, Brain, Glory, Heart, Impossible, Poet, House, Inspirational Life, Mother'S Day, Acknowledge, Alien, Life Is Like, Pregnancy, I Like You, Afternoon, Excellent, World, Inspiring, Fitness, Dance, Town, Involve, Thank You, Looking For Love, Disco, Dress, Night, Jesus, Kids, Memorable, Technical, Quite, Scholar, Amazing Music, Future, Things In Life, Period, Stage, Music, Journey, Identity, Lifetime, Today, Inspiration, Weak
Edward Sapir

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

Entirely, Latin, Long, Religious, Solved
Same Author Quotes

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

Completely, Conceptual, Expression, Luckily, Perfect, Would Be

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

Different, Factors, Free, Imposed, Psychology, Way

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Expression, Known, Spirit, World

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Allows, Beings, Fashion, Want, Wish

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Age, Events, Legends, Regarding, Statements, Type
Similar Quotes