Quotes About Foreign Accents

#1. How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

Rachel Nichols

#2. People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.

Dominic Purcell

#3. We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

Christiane Amanpour

#4. I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

Jack Kilby

#5. I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

Olivier Martinez

#6. I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

Azzedine Alaia

#7. But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

Junot Diaz

#8. The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

George Santayana

#9. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

Thomas Malthus

#10. But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

Marat Safin

#11. There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.

Carole Nelson Douglas

#12. The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

Ridley Pearson

#13. Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

Julian Of Norwich

#14. I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.

Jojo Moyes

#15. I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

Kate Winslet

#16. Laughter has no foreign accent.

Paul B. Lowney

#17. We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the most alive when we're connecting with others and being brave with our stories - it's in our biology.

Brene Brown

#18. Being president of the United States is the most stressful, thankless job in the world and Margaret can't fathom why anyone would voluntarily pursue it.

Elin Hilderbrand