The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when… — Alfred Eisenstaedt 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
“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
Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole,… — Derek Walcott 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
A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night… — Tad R. Callister 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
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
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels....” — Josh Stern 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
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes:… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are… — Kukai Copy Share Image
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith 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
Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image