Russian Quotes

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.

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.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

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

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

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

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

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

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

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

One is born to be a great dancer.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.