#pronounce

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#i #made #pronouncements #want

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#good #long #name #pronounce #publicist

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#cannot #done #effect #experts #irritated

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#know #loud #pronounce #say #word

It's pronounced 'Romaine,' like the lettuce. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#like #pronounced

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#desired #die #end #his #i

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#clearly #diction #early #early age #english

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#ass #attitude #contempt #curmudgeon #hilarious