Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Mitchell

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.

Bruce Beresford

So I said to the production company, 'what are we going to Canada for if we're not going to use local actors?' And they said to me - and this was something that I was unaware of - 'the accent is different.' And I said, being from Australia, 'what a load of nonsense.' But after I had been here for a few weeks I realized that this was indeed true, the accent is different.

Alex Pareene

Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.

Kirby Heyborne

I got criticized for my accent more by Mormons than people in England. The people in England thought I was Welsh.

Ryan Cartwright

I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quite true of everything: The British accent does open doors.

Rupert Friend

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

Liam Hemsworth

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

Jonathan LaPaglia

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.

Robert Carlyle

I must have been dreaming about Albie. I spoke in a Liverpool accent all the time. It becomes second nature. It's much easier like that. It seems to me common sense rather than extraordinary.

Cindy Sheehan

I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying, 'Well, you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths are going to make the world a better place,' and it's up to us to make sure that it does.

Source Unknown

We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.

Francis Bacon

But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on

Michael O'Donoghue

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Buddha

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Ignatius of Antioch

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

Christian Slater

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Gordon Banks

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Paul Murphy

English is a language from the head and brain, Irish comes from the heart.

John Gay

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

John Stevens

We have a fairly mixed group in our research group. Most of them are not native English speakers.

Rafael Nadal

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Solon

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

Taron Egerton

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

Lisa Kudrow

I have no affectation when I speak

PewDiePie

Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't.

John Ruskin

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Michael Caine

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.