Quotes About Elocution

#1. I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people

Matt Bomer

#2. I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

M. J. Hyland

#3. [On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

Jessica Mitford

#4. I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

#5. We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

Penelope Keith

#6. Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

Alexander Graham Bell

#7. I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

Gina Bellman

#8. Love's the son
stood stammering elocution
while the poor ship in flames went down

Elizabeth Bishop

#9. What is it, you ask?" Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. "I haven't thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?"
"Shit," the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.
"That wouldn't impress anyone at the patent office.

Lindsay Buroker

#10. I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#11. I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

Vivien Leigh

#12. it was forty degrees outside.

Gayle Forman

#13. How were they weird?" "Hoodoos. Thought the matrix was full of mambos 'n' shit. Wanna know something, Moll?" "What?" "They're right.

William Gibson

#14. Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Greg Egan

#15. But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others,

Zadie Smith

#16. In fact, I suspect they prefer flawed certainty to faultless ambivalence.

Bobby Adair

#17. It's weird when someone gets you understands what you would never say not even to yourself.

Swati Avasthi

#18. You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

Mark Twain

#19. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Norman Borlaug

#20. Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely. Long

Sheryl Sandberg

#21. God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#22. Whatever this game is we're playing," she finally said, "I'm going to win it."
If she expected him to be thrown off or confused by that statement, she was sorely disappointed.
"If you trust me and obey me," he said, "we might both win.

Tiffany Reisz

#23. On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Ingmar Bergman

#24. It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.

Matt Ridley