Benjamin Whorf Quotes

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Benjamin Whorf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 24, 1897 - July 26, 1941

Topics

WordsMetaphysicalMostEuropean

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

Jessica Simpson

LoveChangeSomeoneYouFallWant

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

Johannes Tauler

GodInequalityTouchWayGiftsLies

I hope when people see that female-led production companies are working, there will be more of us.

Trudie Styler

HopePeopleWillMoreSeeWorking

I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.

Masayoshi Son

TechnologyTogetherCareEmployees

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

Michelle Dockery

SimpleEleganceNothingWayJust

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

Chris Lilley

PersonalityPeoplePersonSuit

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

Craig Armstrong

WordsThoughtsYouKnowClosing

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Bryan Procter

SleepDeepestBuyThingsHowPowers

My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, my calling. And to watch everyone run in slow motion.

Priyanka Chopra

MusicMemorySlowRunEveryoneLike

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

Pep Guardiola

TimeTeamYouCreatePossibleTry

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Thomas Jefferson

MoneyMoralityCommercePrinciple

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

Nigella Lawson

FeelInsideOutsideDifferenceSeem

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