Famous quotes containing the words close and/or vowels:
“Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.”
—Kingsley Amis (b. 1922)
“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)