David Crystal Quotes

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

David Crystal

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PeopleSocietyEndLanguageYou

The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

Jessica Jackley

TimeLightFunPeopleStorySexy

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Robert Rauschenberg

PaintingWorldThinkMoreRealOut

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

EducationFoodGovernmentPeopleSee

I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.

Ana Ortiz

MorningLunchExerciseEggCheese

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Stephen King

GodMeMysteryYouPowerfulFirst

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

Sugata Mitra

JobCareYouTableGoWhy

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

Tommy Hilfiger

TimeBrotherWake UpRestEarlyUp

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

Roddy McDowall

JobThinkActorNeverAlwaysGet

'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.

Russ Tamblyn

StoryCareerFirstHighSideSaw

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Mike Shinoda

ParentsTreatChristmasOldYears

The iPad is creating a new format for reading content. One of the things that's happening as a result is the world of personalized news aggregators, which is a category that's been around for quite some time, is getting new life.

Mike McCue

LifeTimeWorldReadingNew Life

You wonder, how could socialists, true socialists work with Islamists? Because if those Islamists take over, the first thing they're going to do is kill the socialists.

Louie Gohmert

WorkYouWonderTrueFirstOver

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