Words matter. These are the best Pronounce Quotes from famous people such as Charles Hodge, Gillian Jacobs, Reshma Saujani, Cary Fukunaga, John Fiske, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.
When I first ran for office in 2010, I was 32 years old. The average age in Congress was 69. I was a brown woman whose name was Reshma Saujani – a name most people couldn’t pronounce. And there was never a South Asian woman who had ever run for United States Congress before.
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s me.’
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.
I think when you’re acting, you usually don’t have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you’re saying.
When you don’t know how to pronounce words, when you don’t know the meaning of the words, how will you imbibe a song with feeling?
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.
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.’
Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like ‘What’s your last name?’ It’s not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that’s what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get.
I have kids, so I can understand the image that footballers have. They are fans of some players; I see in their eyes. They admire and try to imitate their gestures, their words, their celebrations. They love Ronaldo and Messi. Since Euro 2016, though, they have no right to pronounce the name of Ronaldo!
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.
It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
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.
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.
It is not my job, as Chief Minister, to probe crimes or pronounce anyone guilty. My priority lies in bringing Punjab out of the chaos in which it has been left by the previous government.
I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, ‘Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.’ ‘Cause I said I have a degree in ‘thee-a-ter.’
If you can’t pronounce a word correctly, just don’t use it.
If a product has an endless list of ingredients, and you can’t pronounce half of them, I would think twice about bringing them into your home.
My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it’s all good.
Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China’s one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.
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.
When I decided to start a career in the Hindi entertainment industry, I knew I had to put in efforts as I’m not very fluent with the language of Hindi, as I pronounce certain words differently.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
No one can pronounce my name. My name is ‘The Black Guy From 40-Year-Old Virgin’.
Being a Middle Eastern girl in America with a name no one could pronounce was not easy, so I turned to make-up and cosmetics as a way to deal with my insecurities, thus creating my long-term relationship with beauty.
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.
Cesar’s not even that hard. But I suppose Azpilicueta is. Some said my name was too difficult to pronounce and could they call me Dave. It’s stuck. It’s also done affectionately.
Even when I speak English to my parents, I’ll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends – you know, I’ll pronounce ‘McDonald’s’ differently, because it feels right, and that’s what I’m used to.
Adding salt to desserts helps to balance and pronounce flavors. Almost all of my desserts have salt in them. They don’t taste salty per se, but if I gave you two of the same item – one with salt and one without – side by side, you would realize something was missing.
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.
The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it’s a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can’t pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it’s probably not good for you.
Honestly, I’ll take a little lard over the 20 chemicals and ingredients I can’t pronounce in some store-bought tortillas.
The way you pronounce words the Puerto Rico way, it’s not really global for music. Colombians speak some of the best Spanish in the world. So having a Colombian next to me every time I write makes my music more international.
My real name is Davenie Johanna Heatherton, but my older brother, Dick, couldn’t pronounce Johanna when he was a boy. So he called me ‘Joey.’
It was my dad’s idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
Sequestration, sequestation – however you pronounce that word – and gridlock aren’t all that bad.
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.
My last name is difficult to pronounce. It’s Toussant.
I used to get very nervous and couldn’t even pronounce my name in front of my camera.
I was called before the king’s tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I had looked for support. My brethren, the bishops, sided with the court and were ready to pronounce judgment against me.
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.
As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I’m happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
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.
If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
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.
I knew I didn’t have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.
I don’t pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.
It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word ‘stutter’ is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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.
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.
Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.
