Consonants Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting… — Barnett Newman
I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and… — Hugo Ball
I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldnt talk very well.… — Christina Applegate
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this… — Ron Rash
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason… — Johann Georg Hamann
On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera… — Robert Brustein
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that… — N.D. Wilson
Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants. — Christopher Moore
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnâ€™t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords.… — Eckhart Tolle
Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere.… — Jerry Spinelli
Say something in Mandarin,â€ said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his… — Cassandra Clare
Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for… — Robert Brustein
I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the… — Dennis Miller
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants,… — Louis Untermeyer
What is so special about LOVE? Two vowels, two consonants and two fools. — Nishan Panwar

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