Mispronouncing Words Quotes

#1. I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

Adriana Lima

#2. I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

Philip Schultz

#3. She had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Evelyn Waugh

#4. The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.

Jasper Fforde

#5. You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

Clay Guida

#6. ... insanity is never reasonable.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#7. The future of your organization depends on motivated human beings selflessly contributing unasked-for gifts of emotional labor.

Seth Godin

#8. It didn't feel like an exalted business - there was nothing grand about it. It hadn't felt noble and righteous, it felt rough and ugly and bloody and cruel. It was what was necessary, that was all.

Lev Grossman

#9. God blesses to the degree in which you believe.

Pamela R. Jeffers

#10. God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Jefferson Davis

#11. Reality is just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagner

#12. Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

Sufjan Stevens

#13. When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Kevyn Aucoin

#14. I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.

Mary Lambert

#15. Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they'll have the chance to become them.

Del Close

#16. When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel ... you have to listen to it.

Jim Crace