Phonemes Quotes

#1. 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.

Roman Jakobson

#2. Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

Helen Vendler

#3. It would then be found that the words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of 'singing' the world. The initial form of language, therefore, would have been a kind of song.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#4. The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Roman Jakobson

#5. Some of the more outstanding features of Ugaritic are its preservation of most of the Proto-Semitic consonantal phonemes.

Angel Saenz-Badillos

#6. There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

Anne Waldman

#7. Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

L. Sprague De Camp

#8. The only real freedom any of us have is making our own decisions.

Shane Gericke

#9. I don't want to feel anymore. Feelings hurt too damn much

Katie McGarry

#10. Tithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith - faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments.

Carl B. Pratt

#11. We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.

Jordan Ellenberg

#12. A bit beyond perceptions reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key

Piet Hein

#13. Die!
--Gleeson Hedge

Rick Riordan

#14. Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.'
'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

Evelyn Waugh

#15. Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.

R.A. Salvatore

#16. Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

William Wycherley

#17. Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

Bea Arthur

#18. Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

Charles E. McKenzie

#19. Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

Daniel Mendelsohn