Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of its birds.

I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.

I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.

She went on because there was no going back.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

I'm the best player in the NBA.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.