In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated K and marches steadily across the roof of his mouth, ending with elusive vowels that hover outside his lips
Quotes about vowels (10 Quotes)
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.
The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'
Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
The mother was already named Charlotte and the pups are ... you won't even believe it. They are Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Mr. Big. But Mr. Big doesn't answer to his name because dogs need names with more vowels. And I don't call the big dog Charlotte. It's just too weird. I just call her Mama.
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.
Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased.
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
I invented the colors of the vowels --A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green --I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms . . .
Expletives, if they have vowels in them, can make a big difference. Expletives that are full of consonants and emotion that is ill placed (does not). In other words, a scream should never feel like it sounds. It should never feel angry. It should never feel aggressive.