Quotes About Vowels

#1. Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the same on the written page sound as if they are spoken by a goat with catarrh.

M.C. Scott

#2. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

Sylvia Plath

#3. A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun - these would not be so sad as a ... soul without Christ.

Tad R. Callister

#4. Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.

Maggi Richard

#5. Io. My name is Io." She pronounced the name "eye-oh" as if there perfectly ordinary. Which was ridiculous, because no one he knew bore a name with only vowels.

Katie MacAlister

#6. There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

William Gaddis

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

Christina Lauren

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.

Dolora Zajick

#11. When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." He

Darynda Jones

#12. The Cockney accent was almost impenetrable. *Nothing* was "nuffin," and aitches were dropped from and attached to the wrong words, and some of the vowels seemed to have arrived from another planet.

Loretta Chase

#13. The thing is to sift out
the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring
hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for
the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment
for the sentence.

Richard Jackson

#14. French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

Alma Gluck

#15. I am always in a state of Eunoia.

And I'm not in it just for the vowels.

Mark Bradford

#16. For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

Nana Mouskouri

#17. You shouldn't believe anything you hear standing outside a plywood window. Everyone knows plywood distorts vowels...words...sayings." -Ariel

Fern Michaels

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

Terry Pratchett

#19. Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Duke Ellington

#20. [H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt.

A.S. Byatt

#21. One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

Alasdair Gray

#22. With a gun barrel pressed between you're teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. 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

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

Stewart Lee Beck

#25. I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

Patti Smith

#27. 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

#28. Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:

Ryan Hackney

#29. If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels ...

Josh Stern

#30. 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

#31. We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

William S. Burroughs

#32. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

Gregory Rabassa

#33. 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

#34. Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska?

Dana Stabenow

#35. He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#36. When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well.

Marcello Giordani

#37. I invented the colors of the vowels!
A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green
I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.

Arthur Rimbaud

#38. Aramaic has no vowels. So MLK spells Moloch." "Or milk," Deborah said. "Really, Debs, if you think our killer would tattoo milk on his neck, you need a nap.

Jeff Lindsay

#39. I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.

Dolora Zajick

#40. 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

#41. Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.

Colum McCann

#42. Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly.
"Where were you when the vowels were handed out? Behind the door?" said Nanny Ogg.

Terry Pratchett

#43. With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels. We're

Chuck Palahniuk

#44. In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated K and marches steadily across the roof of his mouth, ending with elusive vowels that hover outside his lips

Jhumpa Lahiri

#45. 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

#46. The transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS./WI. UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM:

James Joyce

#47. See this? This i-e? When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.

Darynda Jones

#48. The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.

Osip Mandelstam

#49. It would then be found that the words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of 'singing' the world. The initial form of language, therefore, would have been a kind of song.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#50. I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.
There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. ("Substitutions")

Michael Marshall Smith

#51. Drink wine in new cities.
Forget that you were ever
intoxicated by the vowels
of his name.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#52. Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.

Woody Allen

#53. She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space.

Fredrik Backman

#54. Cwn Annwn," I said. "I think I'm finally pronouncing that right. Welsh. So many letters. So few vowels.

Kelley Armstrong

#55. With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'

Craig Kilborn

#57. Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.

Terry Pratchett

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

David Mitchell

#59. I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back

Lil' Wayne

#60. I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

Lake Bell

#61. When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

David Longstreth

#62. Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.

Emo Philips

#63. Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.

Lil' Kim

#64. School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

Myla Goldberg