Phoneme Quotes & Sayings

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion. — Kenneth Goldsmith

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want! — Jacques Pepin

Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers called attention to the way this notion of love served the interests of patriarchal men and women. It supported the notion that one could do anything in the name of love: beat people, restrict their movements, even kill them and call it a "crime of passion," plead, "I love her so much i had to kill her. — Bell Hooks

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing. — David Byrne

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them. — Anne Waldman

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. — Stephen Fry

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else. — Robert Herjavec

Average people push great people out of a company. — Jason Calacanis

Vince McMahon said alright, we're going to call you the Blue Blazer. — Owen Hart

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme. — Nicholson Baker

Single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her, — Pat Conroy

The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms. — Nelson Mandela

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Language isn't weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it." Teia — Brent Weeks

You know the way some Orientals confuse the sounds of R and L when they speak a Western language? That's because R and L in many Eastern languages are allophones, that is, considered the same sound, written and even heard the same - just like the th at the beginning of they and at the beginning of theater." "What's different about the sound of theater and they?" "Say them again and listen. One's voiced and the other's unvoiced, they're as distinct as V and F; only they're allophones - at least in British English; so Britishers are used to hearing them as though they were the same phoneme. — Samuel R. Delany

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing. — Edsger Dijkstra