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Quotes About Twang

Margaret's voice, with its raspy twang, reminded her of magnolias and whiskey.
~ Deborah Leblanc
Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
~ Kelsea Ballerini
Dr. Phil is a fat, loud blowhard with a Texas twang and male-pattern baldness.
~ Bianca Del Rio
Suddenly I shouted into the night air. 'Yes, yes, yes, it is true! And now the world had some tension in it; now it twanged and vibrated with meaning and possibility! 'Yes, yes, fucking yes!
~ Hanif Kureishi
these Spaniards are all an odd set; the very word Spaniard has a curious, conspirator, Guy-Fawkish twang to it.
~ Herman Melville
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
~ John Oliver
Eragon as he pulled back the bowstring and released it with a twang. With a puff of feathers, the crow fell over backward, the arrow protruding from its chest.
~ Christopher Paolini
Now then, young man," he cried in the nasal twang of the West Riding. "I'm Mr. Dinsdale's brother. I farm over in Listondale." I put down my equipment and nodded. "How do you do? My name is Herriot.
~ James Herriot
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
~ Ian Williams
I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
~ Ann Wilson
That's one thing I learned from B.I.G. He was always heavy on versatility. I'm able to take an R&B record and rip it the same way I rip a regular freestyle or a hardcore beat, be able to put that same twang and seasoning on anything you do.
~ Jadakiss
Fat heard in her rational tone the harp of nihilism, the twang of the void.
~ Philip K. Dick
Donovan shrugged and glanced around. He wasn't nervous or frightened; he just didn't want to be heard. He was calm and articulate with a slight mountain twang, and Samantha was captivated, both by his narrative and his dark eyes.
~ John Grisham
I told you he had calico fever," he drawled in a Texas twang. "Why else would a young man mope around like a tick-fevered doggie?
~ Mary Connealy