Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

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.

If you are doing something good, never do it free

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

Old saws have no teeth.

I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.

Close the playand keep the store open nights.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.