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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
You didn’t tell me she was so soft on the eyes,” he said to Patch, wiping his mouth with the back of… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Voice-over stuff is so much fun because you don't have hair and makeup and wardrobe. You get to show up. And there… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners,… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York… — Nikki DeLoach Copy Share Image
I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is,… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys… — David Lee Roth 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/quotes/i/7d4/rob-lowe-855_accents_j-f-kennedy-s-own-accent-was-inconsisten_2179607.jpg)
![“I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours of boxing, 2 hours of weights, an hours of accent and dialect training, I just enjoyed having to do all that for this character [ Vinnie Paz in Bleed for This].” quote by Miles Teller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/042/miles-teller-7696_accents_i-just-really-enjoyed-all-that-kind-of-r_578805.jpg)
![“I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore…” quote by Vera Farmiga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/vera-farmiga-3068_accents_i-bring-myself-innately-to-it-yeah-i-bri_2475567.jpg)
