Close Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words close and/or vowels:

    “I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”
    —Duke Ellington (1899–1974)