#ling

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable "Chilean sea bass. ↗

— Hal Herzog

#food #foodie #language #linguistics #names

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial. ↗

— Allen Klein

#beneficial #both #deal #decided #discuss

But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last. ↗

— Jack Gilbert

#love

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #elements #feelings #instead #merely

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#chaos #form #imagine #merely #order

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#companies #down #ealing #films #i

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it. ↗

— Hildegard Knef

#good #help #make #middling #mistakes

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends. ↗

— Christopher Knight

#actually #aspects #clumsy #feel #feeling

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. ↗

— David Knopfler

#behind #best #craft #create #curtain

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive