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

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.

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.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

My kids, they're always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something.

You've got to be careful smoking weed. It causes memory loss. And also, it causes memory loss.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

We can change the world one laugh at a time.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They're always buying something we can't afford.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.