Lisping Quotes

#1. She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess.

Jodi Picoult

#2. I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities.

George Saunders

#3. The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

George Washington

#4. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

George Eliot

#6. But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

Anton Chekhov

#7. God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Thus the theory of description matters most.
It is the theory of the word for those
For whom the word is the making of the world,
The buzzing world and lisping firmament.

Wallace Stevens

#9. The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.

John Vance Cheney

#10. Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.

Lucy Larcom

#11. Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

Anish Kapoor

#12. Life is a performance. Earn an ovation.

James Pack

#13. The tiny princess glanced up with a shy smile. "Boyth, all," she said, in a small, lisping voice. Morgan's

Diana Wynne Jones

#14. I pitched my voice for Dirty Harry, but it was more Lisping Baggins.

David Mitchell

#15. What have I told you about trying to sound ingratiatingly cute, Twyla?" she said. The little girl said, "You said I mustn't. You said that exaggerated lisping is a hanging offense and I only do it to get attention.

Terry Pratchett

#16. It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. Somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

Harper Lee

#18. I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

Jami Attenberg

#19. This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

Kevin Costner

#21. The development of a tree depends on where it is planted.

Edward Joyner

#22. Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

Ted Nugent

#23. Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But

Ilona Andrews

#24. Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

Marie Corelli

#25. Being full of mischief, they love to listen;
they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,
pretending to be sent from Heaven,
and lisping like angels, while they lie.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe