Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

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

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.

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