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Edward Sapir Quotes

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

Edward Sapir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1884 - February 4, 1939

Topics

Time Limits Appearance Movement Us

The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.

Jenny Shipley

Work Opportunity Time Think Way

Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'

Rob Lowe

Dress Blue Me Black You White

Aaliyah has been an artist I've grown up with, like an older sister.

Romy Madley Croft

Sister Artist Up Older Sister Been

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

Ruth Wilson

Me Believe Church You Understand

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

Ruby Wax

Life Mother Body Bad Find Done

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

Louis Sachar

I Am Me Writing Think Feel Result

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.

Dimitar Sasselov

Life Learning Technology Travel Meet

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

Diane Keaton

Thinking You Go Say Never Plastic

The most I ever ate? In one sitting? Maybe four big plates of fried chicken, biscuits, chitlins, gravy. Then dessert. Apple pie, sweet potato pie. My mother cooked that stuff, good Southern food, and when I was 300 pounds, I never missed a meal.

Bruce Smith

Good Mother Food Sweet Apple Pie

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.

Brittany Bowe

Time World Traveled Skating Old Kid

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Anthony Minghella

Myself I Am Thought Never Write Out

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Alfred de Vigny

Live Age Exploration Investigation