Vowels Quotes

47 quotes by 42 authors

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels. — Craig Kilborn
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
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. — Nana Mouskouri
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say â€˜Aaaaah,â€™ with five vowels when they see it.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant. — Myla Goldberg
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the… — Alma Gluck
The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the… — Kukai
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
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because… — Ambrose Bierce
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels… — Alexander Pope
I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back — Lil Wayne
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
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
Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident. — Woody Allen
Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel. — Lil' Kim
A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and… — Tad R. Callister
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

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