8 Vowels Quotes for You to Enjoy

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. Duke Ellington

Missing Like Vowels Scrabble Playing

I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard. Priyanka Chopra

Queen Speak Giving Giving Up Lose Eloquently Back Out India Pretty Had Miss New Come Vowels Well Accent Learn Felt Up America American American Accent York Just New York Place Pageant Hard English Needed

Obama's middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign view me as a pariah, too? Do McCain and Palin think there's something wrong with my name? Khaled Hosseini

Me Think Too Obama Something Only Wrong Name Vowels Does Campaign Middle McCain View Differs Palin Last Two

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. Nana Mouskouri

Long Rule Only Voice Had Vowels Exercise Loss After Medical

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.' Craig Kilborn

News People Political Big Chanting Running More He Announced Vowels California Schwarzenegger Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor Four

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants. Toby Jones

Day Morning You Speak Lost Every Those All Day Though East Properly Having Never Had He Attend Hot Hours Vowels California Still End Very Hitchcock Quite Nose Many Even Petrified Things Four

On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way. Ron Rash

Character Words Ending Focus Stage Back Way Out Stay New Vowels Surprised Began Up Trying Often Just Where Different Happen Story Themselves Even Shows Including Letting Syllables Last Drafts Stressed Rub

When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well. Marcello Giordani

Good You Be Happy Learning Happy Yourself Technically First Way Insecure Easy Find About Open Good Way Sing Vowels Well First Thing Tighten Real Italian Off Very Close The First Thing Should Body Shoulders Your Your Body Technique Thing