
“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
Keywords (1983)
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
Keywords (1983)
“You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge.”
Interview magazine, 1978.
Quoted in Philosophy of Science Vol. 37 (1934), p. 157, and in The Truth of Science : Physical Theories and Reality (1997) by Roger Gerhard Newton, p. 176
Context: What is it that we humans depend on? We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character … We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.
"A Few Words to a Young Writer" http://www.ursulakleguin.com/WordsYoungWriter.html (2008)
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.”
“The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."”
As quoted in The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio (2002) by William Bernstein