Phonetics Sounds Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity. — Manoj Bhargava

If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts. — Frederic Farrar

My Own Epitaph
Life's a jest, and all things show it.
I thought so once, and now I know it. — John Gay

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. — Ridley Scott

To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The recognition of regularity in the courses of the heavenly bodies and in the succession of seasons first provides a basis for a systematic ordering of events, and this knowledge makes possible a calendar ... Simultaneously with this concept, a system of relationships comes into the idea of the world. Change is not something absolute, chaotic, and kaleidoscopic; its manifestation is a relative one, something connected with fixed points and a given order. — Hellmut Wilhelm

For six nights, this nightmare has howled through my sleep, a dire warning. — Robin Hobb

At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful - now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power. — Oswald Spengler

...grief.
If you eat too much of it, you want more, you can never get enough. — Ai

If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming. — Diana Peterfreund

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural. — Alexander Graham Bell

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote ... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down. — Paul Weyrich

Betty, whom I recently discovered sorting through the contents of my suitcase, turns on the overhead light in my room, wrinkles her brow, and peers in like a camp counselor on an inspection tour, as if she suspects I might be entertaining someone who has paddled in from across the lake. She must keep an eye out. I am a schemer. There are things going on behind her back, plans afoot, she fears. She has no intention of cooperating with any of them. When the phone rings, she listens to every word, not sure if she can trust me with her independence. I don't blame her. I am an unlikely guardian. A month ago I thought the Medicare doughnut hole was a breakfast special for seniors. I am a care inflictor. She's — George Hodgman

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent. — Brendan Gleeson

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities. — David Shi

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. — Mahatma Gandhi