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Joshua Foer Quotes

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Joshua Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1982

Topics

Communication Today End Design More

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Joe Wright

Choices Feeling Kind Need Intuition

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

Poetry Think Person Kind Teaching

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.

Michael Bloomberg

Time College Constitution Reading

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

Stephanie Beacham

Thinking Remember I Can Deaf Dancing

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

Stephanie McMahon

Father Respect Husband Loved Picture

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

Ron Reagan

Mother Morning First Out Her Saw

If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.

Joshua Jackson

Work Stand Camera You Go Everything

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Josh Billings

Age Old Age Youth Run Difficulties

I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a pretty rough commute. In many ways, I think New York has a lot of things the West Coast doesn't have.

Jon Oringer

Work New York Think New Want Pretty

I have never known Frances to complain once of my Church responsibilities. I have been gone many days and many nights, and I have rarely been able to sit with her in the congregation. But there is no one like her - absolutely no one. She is in every way supportive and is a woman of quiet and profoundly powerful faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Faith Woman Church Powerful Quiet

I'm not one of those people to outgrow my initial blessings.

Tituss Burgess

People Blessings Outgrow Those

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

War People Cold Cold War Context