Top 100 Pronounce Quotes
#1. The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
Frank Muir
#2. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#3. What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?"
Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.
Jodi Thomas
#4. To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.
Rex Stout
#5. I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards
#6. The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or 'in God's name I absolve you.' Rather it is that point at which the sinner unfeignedly experiences himself as truly judged and pardoned by God.
Thomas C. Oden
#7. Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver."
"Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.
Roger Zelazny
#8. With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!' Oh, this act of mercy is so easy for you, for in the absence of anything like real evidence it will be too awful for you to pronounce: 'Yes, he is guilty.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. I'm not entirely sure what your problem is, but I'm sure it's really hard to pronounce.
Bridget Jones
#10. Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.
Alain De Botton
#11. When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.
James Montgomery Bailey
#12. It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Norman Tebbit
#13. I pronounce us man and something-or-other. We're married, big boy.
Gordon Merrick
#14. If one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.
Anthony Eden
#15. How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you
Juliana Hatfield
#16. Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.
Ben Shahn
#17. I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
Josh Billings
#18. The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.
Joe Arpaio
#19. In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.
C.S. Lewis
#20. My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.
Tina Yothers
#21. I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a filed for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#22. In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.)
Mark Twain
#23. Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
#24. Limit yourself to wines with names you can't pronounce that are made from grapes harvested during or before Full House season one.
The Betches
#25. We should have an easier name to pronounce.
John Oates
#26. There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.
Milla Jovovich
#27. All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana
#28. I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.
Marcel Proust
#29. The Swendish queen - whose name I couldn't pronounce to save my life.
Kiera Cass
#30. RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
William Shakespeare
#31. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
Ayn Rand
#32. We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.
John Fiske
#33. I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.
Gillian Jacobs
#34. By the power vested in me thanks to Google, I know pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride!
J.R. Ward
#35. Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot
#36. Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
Lorrie Moore
#37. The Sanskrit word for awareness is smriti, which no one can pronounce. This may explain why awareness has not become as well-known in the west as karma, dharma, and nirvana.
George K. Ilsley
#38. If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.
Michael Pollan
#39. He looked at the white pills in his hand. 'Astin', Eddie called it. No, that wasn't quite right, but Roland couldn't pronounce the word as the prisoner had said it. Medicine was what it came down to. Medicine from that other world.
Stephen King
#40. I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
George Bernard Shaw
#41. I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
Walter Dean Myers
#42. What good is having a friend who's a cop if he won't give me inside information?"
"So you can ask him to look at a piece of shit pistol after you've already bought it, and pronounce it a piece of shit.
Linda Howard
#43. The ignorant pronounce it Frood
To cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud.
G.K. Chesterton
#44. Did they teach you how to pronounce 'Avada Kedavra' when you bought it?" I ask. Victor just stares at me. Probably because he's never read any of the Harry Potter books.
Jenny Lawson
#45. I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.
Monique Wittig
#46. Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Aeschylus
#47. Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.
Aristotle.
#48. The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.
Jonathan Ames
#49. 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
#50. I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."
Pitbull
#51. Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production: 'Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.'
Kevin Hart
#52. Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Giordano Bruno
#53. To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people - and now I was expected to pronounce a judgement about its worth?
Julie Schumacher
#54. One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.
Ayn Rand
#55. The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
Mark Twain
#56. The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
Philip Kitcher
#57. I pronounce ye married, laird and lady. No' 'til death will ye part. And now, Toran," he added with a wink, "ye may kiss the bride.
Willa Blair
#58. Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. I snatched the paper away from Dopey.
"Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!"
"Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.
Meg Cabot
#60. To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.
Alexander Ostrovsky
#61. Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
Timothy Noah
#62. If a product has an endless list of ingredients, and you can't pronounce half of them, I would think twice about bringing them into your home.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#63. I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.
Ambrose Bierce
#65. Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, "There is no god" and (each) said, "except Allah"; (each) threaded the pearl of "Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#66. She wagged a finger at him. "You're mispronouncing that word."
"Your pardon?" He groped, trying to remember what he'd said. "Suffragette? How does one pronounce it, then?"
"Suffragette," she said, "is pronounced with an exclamation point at the end. Like this: 'Huzzah! Suffragettes!
Courtney Milan
#67. We do not talk about wise men or wise ladies any more, she reflected; their place had been taken, it seemed, by all sorts of shallow people - actors and the like - who were only too ready to pronounce on all sorts of subjects.
Alexander McCall Smith
#68. Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
Neil Patrick Harris
#69. Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.
Ellen DeGeneres
#70. In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.
Raquel Welch
#72. He was flying over India now, still making notes. He remembered hearing an Indian politician on TV talking about the British prime minister and being unable to pronounce her name properly. "Mrs. Torture," he kept saying. "Mrs. Margaret Torture." This was unaccountably funny.
Salman Rushdie
#73. If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
Arthur Helps
#74. That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
Richard Feynman
#75. If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil
#76. How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#77. Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians
lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
Nicolas Chamfort
#78. The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to ... deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment, ...
Gautama Buddha
#79. It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.
Mark Helprin
#80. To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
#81. If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.
Sharon Jones
#82. Syntax is complex, but the complexity is there for a reason. For our thoughts are surely even more complex, and we are limited by a mouth that can pronounce a single word at a time.
Steven Pinker
#83. I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.
Scott McKenzie
#84. Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
Maria Edgeworth
#85. Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?"
"Yes."
"You'd have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.
Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
#86. Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!
Homer
#87. It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.
David Letterman
#88. Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.
John Allison
#89. When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
Joaquin Phoenix
#90. The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wonder into the playground that is science ... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
#91. Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
Meister Eckhart
#92. Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.
Cillian Murphy
#93. The Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.
Wislawa Szymborska
#94. English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh
#96. Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#97. I had seen him on campus before. He was always wearing this yellow sweatshirt and giant headphones. The kind of headphones that say, "I may not take my clothes seriously. I may not have brushed or even washed my hair today. But I pronounce the word 'music' with a capital 'M.
Rainbow Rowell
#98. We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Aeschylus
#99. When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.
Robert Pinget
#100. A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.
Lord Chesterfield
