Books Quote by A. A. Gill

I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the surface, and…

— Richard McCabe

“Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did…

— Anita Nair

“Why do you think they don’t like me? They hired me for God’s sake. It’s not like there was any mystery about my history.”…

— Josh Lanyon

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

— Howard Nemerov

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of…

— James Fenton

I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I…

— Bill Nighy

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

— John C. McGinley

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Yo hold the door a-ight? We comin through, Tribe beef, hold it down for the night. Big Moon got the fifth D-Lyfe he got…

— Q-tip

She doesn’t usually back down that easily.” “Maybe she’s got class.” Eve snorted. “Trust me,” she said. “That girl’s got no class at all.

— Rachel Caine

My girl got a fat cat, I call that shit Garfield.

— Lil Wayne

“You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her. "I know", said the little girl. "I got it from you.”

— James Patterson