Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
When we are holding tight to the iron rod, we are in a position to place our hands over theirs and walk… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student.… — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“The cadence of accountability is a rhythm of regular and frequent meetings of any team that owns a wildly important goal. These… — Chris McChesney Copy Share Image
All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for… — Bun B Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
“Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at… — Barbara Casey Copy Share Image
Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive verification without the use of stimuli, .. Cadence… — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone,… — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image