Best Pronounced Quotations
123 Pronounced quotes by 109 unique authors
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Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
— Mark Twain
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Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other…
— Stephen Hawking
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Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he…
— Douglas Adams
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I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever…
— Joseph Conrad
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Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell…
— Rick Riordan
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Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never did so?” said…
— Georgette Heyer
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The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.
— Rick Riordan
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Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you…
— Judith McNaught
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
— Daniel Dennett
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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be…
— Georgette Heyer
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Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing…
— Christopher Hitchens
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She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as…
— Marcel Proust
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His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.
— Kristin Cashore
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The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the…
— George R. R. Martin
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I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid…
— Sarah Dessen
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Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks…
— Jessica Day George
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Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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In the U.S. you have a system of lobbying and influence on our policy and law makers which is incredibly pronounced. The gas industry spent…
— Josh Fox
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Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if…
— Dean Wareham
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Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.
— Robert Dallek
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