A Quote by Frances Trollope

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

Frances Trollope

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American Correctly Country Heard Lips Seldom Sentence Stay Turned Very Whole

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Frances Trollope
English - Novelist
March 10, 1779 - October 6, 1863

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

Gillian Jacobs

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.

Fanny Kemble

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

Russell M. Nelson

Probably the biggest thing around not training correctly is eating. You've got to fuel your system correctly, and I think what we're very unfortunate with in this country [UK] is the [lack of] education around food and nutrition.

Greg Rutherford

What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.

Vivian Gornick

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Michael Stipe

When I was a boy during Thatcher, you watched elections and wept in disbelief as the whole country turned blue, Scotland turned red, and we still got the Tories.

John Niven

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

Charlotte Bronte

I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

Pauline Oliveros

The Beckhams are really inspiring and have very elegantly risen to being the most powerful brand in the country. I'm sure a lot of couples look at that and say, 'Wow.'

Ronan Keating

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

Joseph Joubert

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.