Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You’d have to take the good with the awesome to make tong-mates outta us.” — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
“I was sure that if he didn’t have that damn accent I would have seen through him immediately. Oh, those Brits could be so… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
“I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.” — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
“She's got an accent like yours, right? Like honey on a biscuit?” — Edward W. Robertson Copy Share Image
“All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue.” — Alice Randall Copy Share Image
“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.” — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
“That's a killer accent you have. Sounds exotic.” “Just British, I'm afraid. I only know a trifling of foreign tongues.” He plopped down onto the divan next to her, his multi-colored arm stretched along the back. “Foreign tongues—I like the sound of that.” She thought to the article she'd read in the nail salon. “I've picked up a little French… — Bella Street Copy Share
“My gosh, that voice... deep and soft, with the hint of an accent. British, maybe? I was definitely a sucker for accents.” — Kristi Cook Copy Share Image
“People, they misunderstood the word “accent.” They thought accents were those things everybody else had.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Kaidan had been captivated by the store owner's deep Texan accent. He asked a ridiculous number of questions just to keep the man talking.… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
