Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels.… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant. — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me. There were too many vowels in what she said, and… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
![“[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.” quote by Jessica Mitford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/95f/jessica-mitford-21991_appreciate_on-the-united-states-a-nation-which-does_2767574.jpg)
![“Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise…” quote by Boy George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6af/boy-george-1385_affected_leigh-bowery-affected-a-posh-english-voi_2812746.jpg)
![“On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical…” quote by Claude Chabrol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/937/claude-chabrol-21663_character_on-their-own-each-character-is-a-victim_319734.jpg)
