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Quotes About Pronounce

He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro's wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Second, my dear husband, I pronounce you a certified lunatic. You might as well run naked through the streets!
~ Sholom Aleichem
That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
~ Jonathan Swift
Cicero wouldn't approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Officially it's known as the Tumulus, but everyone I know calls it Boadicea's Mount because they think she watched her last battle with the Romans from there. The archaeologists say they're wrong because (a) the last battle was further north and (b) you got to pronounce her name with a hard "c".
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
~ Giordano Bruno
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.
~ George Eliot
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
~ Charles Kennedy
My name can't be that tough to pronounce!
~ Keanu Reeves
Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
~ Lorrie Moore
I snatched the paper away from Dopey. Hey, he yelled. I was reading that! Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try, I said.
~ Meg Cabot
President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.
~ David Letterman
Miss von Osterloh had looked through it once during an idle fifteen minutes and pronunce it quite sophisticated, which veredict was her euphemism for inhumanly boring.
~ Thomas Mann
Our product is still totally DeepArcher?" "Which is…" "Like 'departure', only you pronounce it DeepArcher?" "Zen thing," Maxine guesses. "Weed thing.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.
~ Anonymous
If a product has an endless list of ingredients, and you can't pronounce half of them, I would think twice about bringing them into your home.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
You may ask, "Who wrote the Vedas?" They were not written. The words are the Vedas. A word is Veda, if I can pronounce it rightly. Then it will immediately produce the [desired] effect.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.'
~ Jimmy Fallon
Restons amis ! Cette phrase était vraiment pire que tout. - Je suis sûre qu'une fée meurt à chaque fois qu'on prononce ces mots quelque part, dis-je.
~ Kerstin Gier
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
~ George Bernard Shaw
O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.
~ William Shakespeare
Even if you hadn't entirely deposed (and possibly killed) not one but two governments and destabilized all sorts of political regions you couldn't even pronounce, let alone draft up constitutional monarchies for, even if you'd been far more careful about leaving your toys strewn about everywhere when you tire yourself out with anarchy and run on home, I'd say you really are the lowest sort.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
it began as springs arising from an aquifer at Thames Head in the Cotswolds, and it was only when the German George I—the first Hanoverian monarch in Britain—acceded to the throne and could not pronounce "th" that the name of the river might as well have been spelled "Tems." She remembered asking about it when she visited London as a child, and her English grandmother informed her, "What the king says is what is right. And he said 'Tems.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
But where you point…it's Lancut." For a long, perplexed moment Wiktor had looked at the map, then at his intended bride, and it was as if someone had lit a light in his face. "Darling, this is Winesooth." "Are you teasing me?" "No!" he said emphatically, pointing to the letters Lancut. "That's Winesooth. That's how we pronounce it." "Oh, Wiktor!
~ James A. Michener