Accents Quotes · Page 4

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.

— Rebecca Front

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

— John Lennon

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

— Paloma Faith

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

— Rachel Bilson

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of…

— Malik Yoba

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

— G-Eazy

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

— Horace

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated…

— Gary Oldman

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the…

— Eugene Ionesco

Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops…

— Kirk Hammett

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents…

— Anonymous

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in…

— Jacki Weaver

I've been a fan of accents my whole life. I love trying to parrot or mimic voices that I hear every day,…

— Paul Walter Hauser

He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to…

— Rachel Caine

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest…

— John Singer Sargent

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream…

— Cornel West

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people…

— Ivan Illich

You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said,…

— Maureen Johnson

“She shook Neil's hand. "I'm Rose." "Neil," he said, with a formal bow of his head. "It's a great honor to meet…

— Richelle Mead

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year…

— Jennifer Ehle

I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk…

— Anna Torv

“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent…

— Peter Hitchens

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive.…

— Robbie Williams

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian…

— Anthony LaPaglia

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

— Eddie Redmayne

Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

— Kayla Ewell

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

— Denis O'Hare

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

— David Suchet

Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

— Kevin Costner

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

— Leslie Nielsen

I'm a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

— Kayla Ewell

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

— Sarah Lancashire

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

— Trevor Noah

The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

— Anonymous

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

— Amy Chua

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

— Kevin Zegers

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

— Robert Benchley

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

— Penelope Cruz

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

— Abigail Breslin