Open Unrounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or vowel:

    “But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there are no gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure—but now it draws me.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

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