Pronounce Quotations

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

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 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.

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.

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.

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.

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.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

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.

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 can do whatever I want to. I'm completely independent. NPR over the years began taking itself enormously seriously -- as it should. In the end I was so micromanaged that they were telling me how to pronounce syllables of words.

Certainly, it increased familiarity with the name Gonzaga. Though a lot of people couldn't pronounce it then, we were glad they were saying it.

If it's an offense to believe or to determine in our hearts that these two young couples are married, charge me, because I believe it and I will pronounce it.

What marketers try to do is take a problem and twist it to their advantage, ... If you can't pronounce the name, all of a sudden it becomes something that's slightly less attainable for the consumer and it becomes more desirable. But it's equally likely that when people don't buy it, it's because they don't know how to pronounce the name.

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

Dr. Weir and I were about to pronounce you dead.

It would be his last (message), because from that day he would be able, with great effort, to pronounce only a few phrases,

Think back to eight or nine years ago. Tell me if you'd ever heard of Gonzaga, and if you had, could you even pronounce it correctly, or know where it is? It's hard for people to put a price tag on that.

Pronounce your words clearly and don't trail off at the end of a sentence. You want to make sure you are heard and understood. Additionally, pause to give the person on the other end of the line a chance to digest what you are saying and to participate in the conversation.

The most logical political decision, taking into account the mutual claims of massive violations, is to pronounce the elections invalid in the sense of trying to determine the real will of the people.

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.

This area was great for locution because you had a lot of Hispanics, Serbs, Croatians, Poles, people of Slavic descent. If you left there and couldn't pronounce a name, then you had to be a dummy. It was just a great place to hone your skills.

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.

It's time for Senator Reid to stop the charade, cut a $68,000 check, and pronounce his ethics crusade dead in the water.

In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.

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 now pronounce you husband and wife, ... You may now kiss the bride.

I had butterflies in my stomach. I don't know why I was so nervous-maybe because I don't know how to pronounce half the lines I have to say today. They're in some made-up language.

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

I couldn't even pronounce it. It was tough reading, but it completely turned around the way I approached the game. It's about preparing your mind, which is such a powerful tool.

The first thing we learned was to pronounce his name:

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.