Vowel Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant. — Myla Goldberg
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because… — Ambrose Bierce
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… — Claude Chabrol
If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel. — John Kessel
Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel. — Lil' Kim
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. — Bill Cosby
'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it? — David Mitchell
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That… — Conor Oberst
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I… — John Oliver
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a… — Bill Watterson
Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not… — William Shakespeare
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
It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than… — Anita Diament
Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia… — Derek Walcott
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
How the fuck I feel? Kinda like 100 mills. Spun the wheel, bought a vowel, I don't owe you nothin' still. — Mac Miller
Life was so much easier when i's were just a vowel. Now I have to be concerned with Tunes, Touch, n Pads..... this could get… — Tina Simpson
Every consonant and every vowel your mind put together to reciprocate the thoughts running through your mind touched a part of my soul, the way… — Arianna Lyzette

Who Wrote These Vowel Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 20 Vowel Quotes as follows: