Onomatopoeic Quotes

#1. It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

Kate Forsyth

#2. Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Monique Roffey

#3. Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon. The word is Semitic; Bab means gate and El means Cod, so Babel means 'Gate of God.' But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someone
who speaks in an incomprehensible tongue. The Bible is full of puns.

Neal Stephenson

#4. Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

Kevin Gates

#5. At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

John McLaughlin

#6. Look ... " Cath said. "I can't just let strange guys into my room. I don't even know your name. This whole situation is too rapey." "Rapey?

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.

John Hiatt

#8. Although we kept the door ajar so that we could hear, we could not see beyond the gentlemen standing in front of the door in the crowded room. I felt trapped behind a wall of men that separated me from the main event.

Tracy Chevalier

#9. We were born to run; we were born because we run.

Christopher McDougall

#10. I only need half my wits to be a match for you.

George R R Martin

#11. Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

Morrie Brickman

#12. I'd be anonymous. That's what I'd do differently.

George R R Martin