Vowels Quotes

47 Vowels quotes by 42 unique authors

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
Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word… — Terry Pratchett
Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean… — Dana Stabenow
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. — Chuck Palahniuk
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
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
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
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith
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
I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips… — Maggie Stiefvater
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
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. — Duke Ellington
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
Married to the game, but she broke her vowels — Lil Wayne
Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it… — Mayma
I dont o u like 2 vowels — Lil Wayne

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