100 Quotes About Accent

Do you have one where you’re riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.—SINGLE-MINDED

Whatcha do to Ricky Ricardo? Found him talking real fast in Spanish." "Nothing." She looked at Tony. "He's just moody, and the moodier he gets, the less you can understand him.

Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.—SINGLE-MINDED

If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?''Lots of planets have a north!

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

At the table next to them sat an old woman and a young man, and across from these two another man, slightly older, apparently an American. The old woman and the young man, her grandson, spoke to each other in one language, and to the American in another. The placing of their lunch order was a strange mixture of languages and accents, the young man ordering for the old woman, following her lament on the size of the portions.

The organs concerned in the production of English speech sounds are the larynx, the velum, the lips, the tongue (that punchinello in the troupe), and, last but not least, the lower jaw; mainly upon its overenergetic and somewhat ruminant motion did Pnin rely when translating in class passages in the Russian grammar or some poem by Pushkin. If his Russian was music, his English was murder.

Although Swedish is one of the few languages on this Earth that I enjoy the sound of. That and Japanese. French is all right, Italian is tolerable depending on who’s speaking it. Everything else makes me cringe. Even English with some accents is bad. Australian? Spare me.

His accent was delicious. A result of British deliberateness changed by the rhythm of an African tongue and the grace of African lips. I moved away after smiling, needing to sit apart and collect myself. I had not met such a man.