Pronunciations Quotes

#1. I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

Lana Wood

#2. Norfolk specializes in odd pronunciations. Hautbois is hobbiss, Wymondham is windum, Costessey is cozzy, Postwick is pozzik. People often ask why that is. I'm not sure, but I think it is just something that happens when you sleep with close relatives.

Bill Bryson

#3. WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear - it never tires me.
To you, your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?

Walt Whitman

#4. 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

#5. For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

Andy Lau

#6. Under the assumption that it would attract less attention than a BIC language, the conspirators conducted telephone conversations in English--broken English, to be exact, with one tense, no articles, and two pronunciations, both wrong(129).

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

Woodrow Wilson

#8. Never go into user research to prove a point, and never create goals that seek to justify a position or reinforce a perspective. The process should aim to uncover what people really want and how they really are, not whether an opinion (whether yours or a stakeholder's) is correct

Mike Kuniavsky

#9. I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Sarah Zettel

#10. Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

Melodie Ramone

#11. We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.

Monica Crowley

#12. One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

Peter Milligan

#13. Marriage is a necessary evil

Amit Abraham