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• Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand… — Barnett Newman
• I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own… — Hugo Ball
• I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because… — Christina Applegate
• On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed… — Ron Rash
• Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only… — Johann Georg Hamann
• On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his… — 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… — N.D. Wilson
• Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds… — Eckhart Tolle
• Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but… — Jerry Spinelli
• Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels… — Cassandra Clare
• Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain… — Hermann Ebbinghaus

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