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When people grow old and look back on their lives, they don't regret what they did, they regret what they didn't do.
— Joan Caraganis Jakobson
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
— Barbara Hambly
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
— Roman Jakobson
What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
— Roman Jakobson
Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
— Roman Jakobson
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
— Roman Jakobson
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
— Roman Jakobson
Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
— Roman Jakobson
When I speak it is in order to be heard.
— Roman Jakobson
Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.
— Matthew Arnold
He felt a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived & the need for display which apparently went along with it,
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
— Charles Olson
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
— Zig Ziglar
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
— Roman Jakobson
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
— Roman Jakobson
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
— Roman Jakobson
Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.
— Marianne Williamson
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
— Roman Jakobson
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
— Roman Jakobson
