What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes…

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close…

— Pattiann Rogers

Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always…

— Gabe Jennings

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with…

— Brad Pitt

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a…

— Michael Chabon

“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a…

— Arthur Gordon

Your cadence is your music.

— William Shatner

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“a faster cadence put less stress on the muscles, transferring the load from the physical (the muscle fibers) to a better place: the cardiovascular…

— Tyler Hamilton

“Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed…

— Barbara Casey

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,…

— Sam Keen

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“That girl you can’t stop thinking about; the one that makes you feel shit you don’t think you’re allowed to feel; Dillon, she can’t…

— Melyssa Winchester