Leonard Bloomfield Quotes

#1. Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

Richard Blanco

#2. So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#3. In my experience, the handoff was the most dangerous part of a deal. If your client decided to pay you in bullets instead of cash, this was where it would go down.

Craig Schaefer

#4. If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

Richard G. Wilkinson

#5. I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, " upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained. What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?

Alexandre Dumas

#6. It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Zainab Salbi

#7. There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

William Shatner

#8. The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.

Leonard Bloomfield

#9. To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow ... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Ricky Williams

#10. The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

Leonard Bloomfield

#11. But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind.

Paul Valery

#12. In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

Robert Kennedy

#13. That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.

Leonard Bloomfield