Ron Rash

On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.

American Poet

Temple Grandin

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

American Educator

Isaac Newton

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

English Mathematician

Christina Applegate

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

American Actress

Martin Van Buren

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

American President

Daveed Diggs

The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough together that you don't trip up over them.

American Actor

David Mitchell

Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

English Novelist

Florian Schneider

Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises.

German Musician

Jose Carreras

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.

Spanish Musician

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

English Poet

Certain consonant sounds can be spelled in various ways, which might confuse learners.

Spelling Traps

Some English words start or end with two or more consonants, called blends, which you'll learn to recognize.

Consonant Blends

Not all consonants are spoken. Some words contain consonants that remain silent.

Silent Letters

Though often used in music, 'consonant' as an adjective applies to ideas, actions, and statements too.

Not Just Music

Using 'consonant' emphasizes the need for consistency between different aspects of something.

Consistency Matters

Using 'consonant' in this way is more formal and may not be common in casual conversations.

Formality Levels

'Consonant' in music isn't limited to intervals; it includes any harmonious sound combinations.

Beyond Intervals

Musical 'consonant' means the notes sound complete and don’t need further notes to resolve the tension.

Musical Resolution

What's consonant in Western music may not be considered so in other musical traditions.

Cultural Variations

 think of our bodies as landscapes that can be explored that is sensitive just in the same way that landscapes physical landscapes is constantly changing our bodies are - and there's a prejudice within geography to course anything makes big scales consonants borders

Daniel Raven-Ellison:...

 And it's the nationalism of an idea that essentially says you can endure differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, custom and costume, consonant, for that matter, and still rally around a consensus. And the consensus is of a very simple principle,

Why nations should...

 rather than plain faces. They like to listen to consonant melodies instead of dissonant melodies. Babies really are born with a lot of innate pleasures. There was once a statement made by a psychologist that said that 80 percent of the pursuit of happiness

Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...

 which is the vibrations generated by your voice box, which are then pushed through the rest of the vocal tract. These are the chambers of your head and neck that vibrate, and they actually filter that source sound to produce consonants and vowels.

Rupal Patel: Synthetic...

 It may sound like a silly question, but have you ever wondered why it is that certain notes, when played together, sound relatively pleasing or consonant, such as these two -- while others are a lot more tense or dissonant, such as these two.

What does the universe...

 and invites us to try our own voices in echoing it. Similarly, consonance is the repetition of like consonant sounds, such as the "l" and "th" in, "So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance,

The pleasure of poetic...

 What do those things have in common? All those things have in common the consonants sitting in the middle like pillars. They stay still, and the vowels dance around the consonants. Who wouldn't want to roll that around in their mouths?

4 reasons to learn a new...

 However, he did make two accurate the tablets were administrative records, and the script was a syllabary, where each symbol represented both a consonant and a vowel, mixed with characters that each represented a whole word.

The race to decode a...

 in ways that are least threatening to, most consonant with their commercial interests. So obesity becomes a problem of individual decision-making, of personal behavior, personal responsibility and lack of physical activity.

In praise of conflict PIPE...

 and we make the saddle. I appreciate less the consonants of those we haven't sounded. I'm pressing the buzzer; I am interpassionate. Interpassion, Interpassion, Interpassion.