Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Im almost never serious and Im always too serious. Too deep too shallow. Too sensitive too cold hearted. Im like a collection of paradoxes.

There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

I love my cigar too but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

When someone breaks your trust dont feel stupid for trusting them. You didnt do anything wrong theyre just an untrustworthy person.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

Ideas shape the course of history.

My biggest thing is, I'm learning what it's like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.