Accent Marks

Famous quotes containing the words accent and/or marks:

“I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)