Top 14 Phonetic Drift Quotes
#1. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.
Jo Walton
#2. sometimes she felt that it was necessary for her very existence that she should free herself from the past; at others, that the past had completely displaced the present, which, when one resumed life after a morning among the dead, proved to be of an utterly thin and inferior composition.
Virginia Woolf
#3. Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
David Mitchell
#4. Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
James Merrick
#5. We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#6. Perhaps the only thing about him that had been remarkable was that he had been given a chance.
Robin Hobb
#7. We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets.
Mitchell Joachim
#9. Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
Paolo Sorrentino
#12. I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.
Leonard Nimoy
#13. Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.
Martin Amis
#14. The hands were ivory-coloured, the skin finely wrinkled everywhere, like the crust on a pool of wax, and under it appreared livid bruises, arthritic nodes, irregular tea-brown stains ... The flesh under the horny nails was candlvwax-coloured, and bloodless.
A.S. Byatt