Accents Quote by Alexander Graham Bell

Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; I found a way to make it an asset. I began to sound words and…

— Richard Ford

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff.…

— Eliza Coupe

If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb…

— Jake Peavy

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

— Moses

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

— Richard Masur

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

— Ben Jonson

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

— Bell Hooks

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

— David Lloyd George

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

— Vivien Leigh

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

— John Dee

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard,…

— Carl Jung

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance,…

— Javier Marías