Quotes of: Pronouncements Keyword

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

Jessica Simpson

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

Jonathan Ames

Dream of me," he said. Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake.

I Now Pronounce You Someone Else

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

Poems New and Collected

I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

Jeff Gannon

Igor: Dr. Frankenstein... Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "Fronkensteen." Igor: You're putting me on. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, it's pronounced "Fronkensteen." Igor: Do you also say "Froaderick"? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No... "Frederick." Igor:...

Young Frankenstein

She wagged a finger at him. “You’re mispronouncing that word.” “Your pardon?” He groped, trying to remember what he’d said. “Suffragette? How does one pronounce it, then?” “Suffragette,” she said, “is pronounced with an exclamat...

The Suffragette Scandal

I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I...

Walter Dean Myers

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

Rebecca Romijn

My name can't be that tough to pronounce!

Keanu Reeves

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Daniel C. Dennett

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Herbert Spencer

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

John Oates

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.

Mary Roach

'Mira Grant' is actually my pseudonym. And 'Seanan' is pronounced 'SHAWN-in.'

Seanan McGuire

The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead...

Assegid Habtewold

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

Penelope Lively

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

Raquel Welch

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

Amanda Seyfried

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

Roma Downey

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

Salmon P. Chase