Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with how people talk! Accents, dialects... So whenever I go someplace where an accent is extremely distinct - Minneapolis, New… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding… — Bob Hayes Copy Share Image
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
Angeline's been hanging out with that dhampir. I just saw them walking off together. Is something going on with them?" "Which dhampir?"… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I'm going to name drop like an idiot now, but Bono rang me up once, right? I don't know how he got… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young,… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
[J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team function, with the emphasis being on the defender's… — Rinus Michels Copy Share Image
Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
“At least I know you are American.” Crap! “What? I bloody am not…mate.” “That could be the worst Australian accent I have… — A. Kirk Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The worst part is I have this weird accent. Every time I say Drew, Draw, Jaw, Jar anything really. I cant say… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Although Swedish is one of the few languages on this Earth that I enjoy the sound of. That and Japanese. French is… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
![“[J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent accents, because people are imperfect by nature. So in the end, what you do is, you do an inhabitation and not an imitation.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d4/rob-lowe-855_accents_j-f-kennedy-s-own-accent-was-inconsisten_2179607.jpg)
