The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Some people are like singularities. Get close enough and you will be uncontrollably consumed in an infinite attraction and will cease to exist apart from them.

I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

I know what a really bad day is...and that's not losing a competition.