Quotes About Enunciation

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

There's a fashion abroad generally to speak the language as badly as possible. I'm of a mind to start a society for the reinstatement of the letter 't' and the banishment of the glottal stop.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend....

Eleven Benevolent Elephants. Yeah! Say that five times real fast.

One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

To love him who makes one happy, is to a reflective mind an inadequate definition of what love is; to love him who made one unhappy out of malice, is virtue; but to love him who out of love, though by a misunderstanding, yet out of love, made one unhappy – that is the formula never yet enunciated, so far as I know, but nevertheless the normal formula in reflection for what it is to love.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

The two of them might have met on that high place deliberately for public celebration of some rite or sacrifice. At first neither said a word. That seemed an age. At last Dr Trelawney took the initiative. Raising his right arm slightly, he spoke in a low clear voice, almost in the accents of one whose very perfect enunciation indicates that English is not his native tongue.

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.

Asked to discuss the new spheroid endorsed by FIFA, Arena refused to take the issue seriously. "It's a BAWL," he enunciated.

El proceso y las condiciones históricas de enunciación modifican todos los enunciados. El sentido es un efecto frágil (y no sustancial) relacionado con la enunciación: emerge en la actividad de escribir-leer y no está enlazado a las palabras sino a los contextos de las palabras… No hay modo de que un texto sea idéntico a su doble.

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.