Vowel Quotes

#1. Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire
poesia Metamorfosi, I. Luna

Derek Walcott

#2. Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

Temple Grandin

#3. My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

Conor Oberst

#4. If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

John Kessel

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

Lil' Kim

#6. We use the same consonant and vowel sounds but have never said them to each other before, and somehow that makes them all new again.

Mindy McGinnis

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. According to some researchers, hominids prior to Homo sapiens could not, for instance, produce the vowel i {ee}. But ultimately, this does not say very much, since by all accounts, et es perfectle pesseble to have a thoroughle respectable language wethout the vowel i.

Guy Deutscher

#9. Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#10. J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel ... from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. 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

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

Myla Goldberg

#13. the pace at which Sean Connery speaks stems from a decision he's made. And every single vowel delivered is with respect for the language. But he delivers it so naturally and with so much humanity that you don't realize that, technically, he is giving a master class in how to deliver a line.

Ron Perlman

#14. Rufus ignored him, muttering in the lost tongue of a pre-human civilisation that had worked great sorcerous happenings yet had never invented the vowel.

Jonathan L. Howard

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

Ryan Hackney

#16. My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

#17. [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

#18. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.

David Levithan

#19. Mm-mm, no, thank you, no, I don't want an enchilaaadaaa. Nor do I want a burr-eye-to. Or a tay-co. Or any other bizarre, unneccessary vowel substitutions.

Greg Proops

#20. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Bill Cosby

#21. In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.

Diane Setterfield

#22. It's a hard spell and an old spell, and it works only if you understand the Great Vowel Shift of the Sixteenth Century - and if you're stupidly in love.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

David Mitchell

#24. What god will catch me
when I'm down, when I've taken
sufficient drink to reveal
myself, when my words are little
more than a blurring
of consonant and vowel?

Dilruba Ahmed

#25. No one dared agree with her. She was temperamental in the best of times, and pregnancy wasn't one of them. No one wanted to risk their neck, not when her apron said it all: K*SS MY *SS - Would you like to buy a vowel?

Jill Shalvis

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

Emo Philips

#27. Look," he said. "We'd like you to return the salary." "Oh, is that all?" I said. "Heck. That's easy. The answer is no." "What?" "No." "No?" "What part of that two-letter word don't you understand, Brad?" I asked. "Was it the vowel that threw you, or the consonant ?

John Scalzi

#28. What a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants!

Jane Austen

#29. NEW HAIKU
One breathy vowel
mists the glass warming window
panes crystalled with snow
Robin Glasser

Robin Glasser

#30. 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

#31. Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn't think being able to spell orgasm without being spotted a vowel was asking too much.

Summer Daniels

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

Lake Bell

#33. And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of saying it, listening to the lovely, liquid opening of the vowel, and the v that close and contained it.

Zibby Oneal