Language Quote by Karen Solie Download Open image ““the long vowel opening at the centre of a consonant world”” — Karen Solie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Centre Consonant Consonant Consonant World Language Long Vowel Vowel Opening
“Although vowels are indicated in the cuneiform syllabaries, they are lacking from the alphabetic scripts of the Northwest and South.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure. — Adelaide Crapsey Copy Share Image
“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
You are the consonants and I'm the vowels and nobody can break our alphabet... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“[H]e emits a long sequence of hard consonants that, even though Ove does not understand them, he suspects to be various combinations of four-letter… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I am trying to imagine language without light, as though I wanted to understand how things were before language, when, deep in the throat,… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
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… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“and language upend its papers looking for an entry adequate to the sliced smell of budding poplars.” — Karen Solie Copy Share Image
“Silence, the breath inside the body of what is, sings an unbroken tone struck in the key of nil. This endless untitled exclamation implicit… — Karen Solie Copy Share Image
“The honourable life is like timing. One might not have the talent for it. Take this guy up ahead who's driven 45 minutes with… — Karen Solie Copy Share Image
“the only animal who kills from a distance, noise for a voice and noise for a home, for whom all places are alike.” — Karen Solie Copy Share Image
“Night climbs its long underground staircase. It recalls what it has to tell us.” — Karen Solie Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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