#cents

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#accents #angeles #been #change #ever

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out. ↗

— Nick Park

#america #american #british #clear #first

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#cleaned #consumption #dirty #history #innocents

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#maternal #me #more #nature #soothing

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#cents #dollars #equals #human #room

Flight 2039 to Boston is now boarding at gate 14A," a voice announced over the PA system. Nellie sighed. "I love Irish accents." She paused. "And Australian accents. And English accents." A dreamy look came over her face. "Theo had an awesome accent." Dan snorted. "Yeah, there was just that one tiny problem. He turned out to be a two-timing, backstabbing thief. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#backstabbers #dan-cahill #nellie-gomes #the #love

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

It can get a bit boring working on accents. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#bit #boring #get #working

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. ↗

— Dolores Ibarruri

#go #guilty #hundred #innocents #kill

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#body #cents #copy #dollar #eighty