Stressed Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words stressed and/or vowel:

    “I used to say: “there is a God-shaped hole in me.” For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)

    “Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)