Vowel quotes:

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  • Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. -- Bill Cosby
  • Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it? -- David Mitchell
  • Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.' -- Temple Grandin
  • Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
  • My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme. -- Conor Oberst
  • My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American. -- John Oliver
  • My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a fad way of talking among certain people. It's based on the concept that in every syllable before the vowel and after the preceding constant you insert the word 'egg.' So, my name Phil would be 'Pegghil.' -- Phil Hartman
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  • Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel. -- Emo Philips
  • I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack . -- Lake Bell
  • If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel. -- John Kessel
  • School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant. -- Myla Goldberg
  • 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it? -- David Mitchell
  • [On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds. -- Jessica Mitford
  • Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna -- Derek Walcott
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