Accent Quote by David Crystal Download Open image “There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower.” — David Crystal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accent Flower Like Thing Ugly
It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual. — Ed Weeks Copy Share Image
The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as ugly, everyone is beautiful in their own way. — Mandy Hoskins Copy Share Image
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an ugly person. Everyone see's beauty in their own way. — Isiahnunn Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Here are three elements we often see in town names: If a town ends in “-by”, it was originally a farmstead or a small… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north!” — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry. — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too. — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids.… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character. — Kodi Smit-McPhee Copy Share Image
Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent… — Sasha Jackson Copy Share Image
I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
