Mispronounced Quotes

#1. I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

Warren Kole

#2. Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.

Bob Newhart

#3. Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then he mispronounced the name of the terrorist group Boko Haram. So if history has taught us anything, Jeb is well on his way to winning the White House.

Jimmy Fallon

#4. [To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Margot Asquith

#5. Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.'

Conan O'Brien

#6. I've had a few embarrassing moments in restaurants. I tried to order a quesadilla, and I totally mispronounced the word. And another time, I asked for some toast with Marmite, and they had no idea what I was asking for!

Alexandra Adornetto

#7. You're delusional." "You mispronounced handsome." She scoffs. "Not today. You look like shit.

J.M. Darhower

#8. I'm fine, Karissa," I tell her. "Good as new." "You're delusional." "You mispronounced handsome.

J.M. Darhower

#9. I hate this," I mutter.
"Really? I'm having a grand time," Aithinne says brightly.
"That's because you're barmy."
"I believe you just mispronounced 'magnificent'.

Elizabeth May

#10. President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.

Tina Fey

#11. I stared at her. "Is that another compliment? Because we've just been through that." She walked to her desk. "You mispronounced thank you.

N.R. Walker

#12. Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' - there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.

Hari Kondabolu

#13. He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

Dorothy Eden

#14. I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me gave an answer and was the receiver of those distant calls from worlds far above.

Hermann Hesse

#15. With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing the right thing because of the circumstances they find themselves in. Or they are overwhelmed by circumstances and can't stop what they'll do next.

Marv Wolfman

#16. The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!

Benjamin Franklin

#17. I knew in every cough and sob, every hitched breath and chest spasm, that he'd hold me together. Whatever fell apart, he'd put right.

C.D. Reiss

#18. I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

Samantha Barks

#19. I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

Gretchen Rubin

#20. But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.

Iris Murdoch

#21. Don is "a bitter introvert," as he cheerfully puts it - bitter because the more time he spends at HBS, the more convinced he becomes that he'd better change his ways.

Susan Cain

#22. Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future.

Sunday Adelaja

#23. Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating Russia couldn't be accomplished without laying the groundwork.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#24. I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

Drew Barrymore