Lee Whorf Quotes

#1. A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#2. In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

Sonia Delaunay

#3. Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

Chuck Grassley

#4. You don't have the right to make that call, not after all this time. I can barely breathe when you're near me, but I'll surely suffocate if I have to lose you. How can you ask me to do that?" She turned her face away. "I'm stronger than you think." She looked back at him. "And I'll do my own fixing.

Madison Thorne Grey

#5. Didn't normal simply mean conforming to other people's expectations?

Jim Buckner

#6. A boy is naturally full of humor.

Robert Powell

#7. Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

Conrad Wolfram

#8. Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#9. Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth,

Christophe Agou

#10. I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Edith Wharton

#11. Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.

Larry Winget

#12. She doesn't really want to go far, she just wants the solitude, the public solitude, of the street; the un-company of passing strangers, no one embracing her, no one looking with compassion and wonder into her eyes, no one marvelling at her.

Michael Cunningham

#13. I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Sam Worthington

#14. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#15. The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#16. Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Speech is the best show a man puts on.

Benjamin Lee Whorf