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  • Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours. -- Robert Anthony
  • Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • My name can't be that tough to pronounce! -- Keanu Reeves
  • If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it. -- Amanda Seyfried
  • I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly. -- Joe Gold
  • If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! -- William Strunk, Jr.
  • We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. -- Aeschylus
  • Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. -- William Cowper
  • Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. -- Aeschylus
  • We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves. -- Johnny Vegas
  • Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment. -- Sandra Bullock
  • Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.' -- Cary Fukunaga
  • I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. -- Barbara Walters
  • The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. -- Charles Hodge
  • 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
  • All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. -- George Santayana
  • When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten. -- Joaquin Phoenix
  • We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. -- John Fiske
  • Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production: 'Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.' -- Kevin Hart
  • On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. -- Emanuel Celler
  • Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. -- Jim Elliot
  • It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. -- Henry James
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name. -- Waka Flocka Flame
  • One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets. -- Jo Brand
  • 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 began to write short stories, too. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • No - simple to pronounce, hard to say. -- Melody Beattie
  • One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment. -- Ayn Rand
  • I certainly want a name that I can pronounce! -- Tom Brady
  • If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it. -- Michael Pollan
  • Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. -- Michael Pollan
  • I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession. -- Monique Wittig
  • Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses. -- Winston Churchill
  • In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear. -- Laura Bush
  • My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly." -- Sierra Demulder
  • To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. -- H. L. Mencken
  • In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky. -- Raquel Welch
  • President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger. -- David Letterman
  • Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced! -- Maria Edgeworth
  • I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. -- Gillian Jacobs
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  • It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. -- Giordano Bruno
  • Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are. -- Anthony Marra
  • President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed. -- Jay Leno
  • The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. -- Mark Twain
  • I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name. -- Jamie Farr
  • The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'. -- Winston Churchill
  • The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it. -- Frank Muir
  • Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's." "Well you can't say fairer than that then -- Tommy Cooper
  • The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'. -- Franz Kafka
  • Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. -- Ayn Rand
  • If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility -- Mark Twain
  • I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. -- J. August Richards
  • If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. -- Richard Mitchell
  • Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it. -- Meister Eckhart
  • My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good. -- Tina Yothers
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  • The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat. -- William Shakespeare
  • If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility? -- E. B. White
  • To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. -- Galileo Galilei
  • The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing. -- Jonathan Ames
  • No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me." -- Cary Fukunaga
  • Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering. -- Stephen Potter
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  • RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. -- William Shakespeare
  • Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. -- Michael Pollan
  • When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged. -- James Montgomery Bailey
  • There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname. -- Milla Jovovich
  • The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject. -- Philip Kitcher
  • Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. -- Timothy Noah
  • Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce -- Lorrie Moore
  • When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. -- Wislawa Szymborska
  • When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. -- Wislawa Szymborska
  • The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right. -- Mark Twain
  • Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. -- Isaac Watts
  • To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so. -- George Santayana
  • It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. -- Norman Tebbit
  • If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  • He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual. -- Gillian Flynn
  • We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. -- Pope Boniface VIII
  • ...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched in the capital. -- Gerald Coates
  • If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm. -- Sharon Jones
  • My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK. -- Toks Olagundoye
  • One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No. -- Plutarch
  • I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
  • Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck. -- Neil Patrick Harris
  • Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts. -- Cillian Murphy
  • In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended. -- Richard Whately
  • The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. -- Van Wyck Brooks
  • Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream! -- Homer
  • As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English. -- Charles Kennedy
  • I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled. -- Josh Billings
  • Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution. -- Ben Shahn
  • I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said. -- Meg Cabot
  • Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell! -- Billy Sunday
  • The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff. -- Callan McAuliffe
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  • It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live -- Maximilien Robespierre
  • It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious. -- George Eliot
  • Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion. -- Roger Zelazny
  • That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken. -- Jonathan Swift
  • The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
  • Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production, "Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody." -- Kevin Hart
  • We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are. -- Anthony Marra
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