Quotes About Consonants

#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. Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing.

Suki Michelle

#3. To the non-Swiss ear it sounds as if the speaker is construing made-up words from the oddest rhythms and the queerest clipped consonants and the most perturbing arrangement of gaping, rangy vowels.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#4. My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Stewart Lee Beck

#5. Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#6. Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a, she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Christopher Moore

#7. His words drifted across Death's scythe and split tidily into two ribbons of consonants and vowels.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.

Rosie O'Donnell

#9. They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

Louise Penny

#10. Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#11. Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

George Eastman

#12. God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

John Crowe Ransom

#13. When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire

William Faulkner

#14. the rich mahogany timbre, the curling vowels and seductive consonants. His voice dances.

Christina Lauren

#15. Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Barnett Newman

#16. Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Johann Georg Hamann

#17. Sometimes I am a cicada, hissing and singing in the leaves of a tree by the sunlit water, thoughtless and wordless, a voice that is all consonants and tribal clicks. Sometimes I rub my legs together like a string bass, and the lake quivers

Catherynne M Valente

#18. It has been brought to my attention that I may be a verbivore. I consumptor of words, that I subsequently spew forth with considerable consternation.
A Volley of verbs that are quite vexing has taken form, perhaps under the guise of consonants most foul!! Where have you wandered faithful vowels?

Neil Leckman

#19. I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Christina Applegate

#20. It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.

Jose Carreras

#21. Thank you, I thought fervently. Thank you, Slavic forebears, ye heavily into consonants. Ye fans of high-scoring Scrabble tiles. Ye who boldly dropped z's where no z's had been dropped before. I appreciate it.

Kate Hattemer

#22. On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.

Robert Brustein

#23. Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

Louis Untermeyer

#24. The river's vowels and the trees' consonants speak a not-quite-foreign language.

David Mitchell

#25. Amel slashes at the consonants so that they hop about like naughty children caught inside the sentence.

Fredrik Backman

#26. Ydych chi'n cymryd cerdynnau credid? said the highwayman, no doubt trying to frighten me further, his consonants chained like anal beads strung out of hell's own bunghole.

Christopher Moore

#27. I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

Hugo Ball

#28. My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

Katy Perry

#29. Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.

L.R. Knost

#30. Naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Edith Wharton

#31. I shall unlearn feeling,
unlearn my gift. That is greater
and harder than what passes there for life.

Derek Walcott

#32. What's your specialty?"
The wizard squinted. "What would you like my specialty to be?

Patrick Weekes

#33. Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

Isaac Newton

#34. George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#35. Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness - these are the only things that are real.

J.P. Delaney

#36. It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with.

Paige VanZant

#37. There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.

William Goldman

#38. There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.

Astro Teller