
From interview with Malavika Sangghvi
A collection of quotes on the topic of accent, likeness, doing, way.
From interview with Malavika Sangghvi
Source: Shantaram
Canto III, lines 22–30 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Text of a letter written following his Hajj (1964)
Be Kind
Écoute les savants, mais ne les écoute que d'une oreille!... Que l'autre soit toujours prête à recevoir les doux accents de la voix de ton ami céleste!
Ampère's Meditation, September 1805
Introduction, sect. 6
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)
“Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.”
L'accent est l'âme du discours.
English translation as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 2.
And, I'm spazzing out. [Gives excited gibberish]
Aloha, Fluffy (2013)
The Conspiracy of Kings (1792)
Context: In every clime, thy visage greets my eyes,
In every tongue thy kindred accents rise;
The thought expanding swells my heart with glee,
It finds a friend, and loves itself in thee. Say then, fraternal family divine,
Whom mutual wants and mutual aids combine,
Say from what source the dire delusion rose,
That souls like ours were ever made for foes;
Why earth's maternal bosom, where we tread,
To rear our mansions and receive our bread,
Should blush so often for the face she bore,
So long be drench'd with floods of filial gore;
Why to small realms for ever rest confin'd
Our great affections, meant for all mankind.
Though climes divide us; shall the stream or sea,
That forms a barrier 'twixt my friend and me,
Inspire the wish his peaceful state to mar,
And meet his falchion in the ranks of war? Not seas, nor climes, nor wild ambition's fire
In nations' minds could e'er the wish inspire;
Where equal rights each sober voice should guide,
No blood would stain them, and no war divide.
'Tis dark deception, 'tis the glare of state,
Man sunk in titles, lost in Small and Great;
'Tis Rank, Distinction, all the hell that springs
From those prolific monsters, Courts and Kings.
“I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.”
Source: Shadow of the Hegemon
An Imposter Impersonator, p. 78.
The American Dream (2008)
“Robin Hood: Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with a English accent.”
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Martin Gregory in Ch. 1 (on Irish politicians)
Cassidy (1986)
Source: The Unicorn Girl (1969), Chapter 1 (pp. 9-10)
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (28 September 1965), quoted in The Times (29 September 1965), p. 5.
Prime Minister
Vancouver Sun http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=15a746f1-2e8b-40d4-8185-0bd221d2a442 (October 15, 2008)
"Alex Jones English British Accent imitates Police" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGgK9ygGluk, The Alex Jones Show, 13 May 2013.
2013
Hilary Hahn on Saint Paul Sunday http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/featured_artists/hahn.html
Un chanteur ou une cantatrice capable de chanter seize mesures seulement de bonne musique avec une voix naturelle, bien posée, sympathique, et de les chanter sans efforts, sans écarteler la phrase, sans exagérer jusqu'à la charge les accents, sans platitude, sans afféterie, sans mièvreries, sans fautes de français, sans liaisons dangereuses, sans hiatus, sans insolentes modifications du texte, sans transposition, sans hoquets, sans aboiements, sans chevrotements, sans intonations fausses, sans faire boiter le rhythme, sans ridicules ornements, sans nauséabondes appogiatures, de manière enfin que la période écrite par le compositeur devienne compréhensible, et reste tout simplement ce qu'il l'a faite, est un oiseau rare, très-rare, excessivement rare.
À travers chants, ch. 8 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/ATC08.htm; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 69.
“The Empire Pool” Conclave: A Journal of Character, Issue 5, (Spring, 2013)
2010-
About his second daughter Akshara
Aamir's choice of films makes Kamal Haasan happy
The noblest thing, and the closest possible to divinity, is thus the act of knowing.
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), pp. 27-28
The News Quiz series 72 episode 1, BBC Radio 4, 24 September 2010
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), pp. 283–284
Quoted in 1989 in The New York Times article "Tracy Ullman Makes A Face" http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/15/magazine/tracy-ullman-makes-a-face.html?pagewanted=all
A Persian Song of Hafiz, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "'T was he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung", Eastwick: Anvari Suhaili. (Translated from Firdousi).
Source: "Discourse in the Novel" (1935), pp. 293-294
In Richard Burton’s Last Match From Take the Ball and Run – A Rugby Anthology by Godfrey Smith http://wesclark.com/rrr/burton.html, Wesclark, 1953.
Tribune Rally, 29 September 1954, in response to Clement Attlee's wish for a non-emotional response to German rearmament. The remark 'desiccated calculating-machine' is often taken as a Bevan jibe against Hugh Gaitskell who became Labour Party leader the following year.
1950s
On his role in the television series Encore! Encore! — reported in Susan King, Los Angeles Times (October 27, 1998) "In Sitcom, Nathan Lane Isn't Taking Steppingstones In Order", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. D6.
Child star Donnie Dunagan, aka voice of 'Bambi,' wasn't afraid to face Frankenstein http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/offbeat-child-star-donnie-dunagan-aka-voice-of-bambi-wasn/article_f81013d1-e67c-587b-aecb-da893dab25c2.html (Marh 2, 2011)
"Q&A: Tracey Ullman" http://www.newsweek.com/newsmakers-127011 (Newsweek, 19 September 2004)
1988 Democratic National Convention keynote address
1988
Source: Transcript of the Keynote Address by Ann Richards, the Texas Treasurer, The New York Times, July 19, 1988, 2006-09-16 http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/19/us/text-richards.html?pagewanted=print,
C'est la vraie voix féminine de l'orchestre, voix passionnée et chaste en même temps, déchirante et douce, qui pleure et crie et se lamente, ou chante et prie et rêve, ou éclate en accents joyeux, comme nulle autre pourrait le faire.
Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes (1844) http://www.hberlioz.com/Scores/BerliozTraite.html#Violon; Mary Cowden Clarke (trans.) A Treatise upon Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration (London: J. Alfred Novello, 1856) p. 25.
Of the violin.
New York Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2000/05/11/2000-05-11_a_renaissance_man_tackles_sh.html (2000-05-11)
2000–2004
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
Speech on the St. Croix and Bayfield Railroad Bill, Jan. 27, 1871; Knott made this satirical speech, sometimes titled as Duluth! or The Untold Delights of Duluth, while serving in the United States House of Representatives; the speech lampooned Western boosterism by portraying Duluth, Minnesota, in fantastical and glowing language.
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 4 : Formal Interlude
How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin (2012)
The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (1947) pp. 82-83
When he refused to believe the telephonic news about his Nobel Prize and accused his caller a poor hoaxer.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan interview: 'It takes courage to tackle very hard problems in science
Cummins website http://www.cummins.com/cmi/content.jsp?menuIndex=8&siteId=1&overviewId=684&menuId=1&langId=1033&
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (2016)
Source: 2010s, 2010, Decision Points (November 2010), p. 121
Inquirer.net http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20081120-173424/Miley-Cyrus-lends-voice-to-animated-film (November 20, 2008)
Sir John E Lloyd A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1912) Vol. 1, p. 564.
Criticism
Exclusive: The Australian Actress Hollywood Can't Get Enough Of (June 10, 2016)
John Gerome (June 5, 2006) "Roth still 'Runnin' with the Devil' on bluegrass tribute", Associated Press.
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 1 : Music and Sound
After knocking out Titus Tugume http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27455:golola-moses-of-uganda-replies-pablo&catid=47:pablo-humour in 10 seconds at Freedom City on Entebbe Road (August 2013)
On where his loyalty lies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/forum/566535.stm
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 163, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Westward the course of empire takes its way", George Berkeley, On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.
Biden Say What?, National Journal/C-SPAN, July 6, 2006, 2008-08-22 http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/07/biden_say_what.html,
2000s
Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950), as quoted at Civics Online http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/mccarthy.html
Daniel Martin (1977)
In "There's no slowing down for Vyjayanthimala".
Source: Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, 1905, p. 61-63