Pronunciation Quotes - Page 2

• Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Remember, Written

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

  Josh Groban

  Perfect, Singing, Trying

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• And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do in the name of evil, but heaven protect us from what they do in the name of good.'

  Richard Boone

  Men, Names, Evil

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• Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

  Beatrice Warde

  People, Design, Personality

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• If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.46

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• He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Said, Not Sure

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Darkest Powers Series, Book 1: The Summoning”, p.156, Penguin Group

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• For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

  Andy Lau

  Chinese, Example

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• But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Latin, Animal, Italian

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• His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

  Mary Antin

  Struggle, Writing, School

  Mary Antin (1912). “At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant”

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• Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Finance, Advantage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.81, University of Georgia Press

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• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Friendship, Christmas

  "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.

  Israel Shenker

  Vocabulary, Quality, Syntax

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