Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

The time on either side of now stands fast.

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!