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
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron. — Giordano Bruno 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
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
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
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler. — Rod Milburn 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
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races,… — Gabe Jennings Copy Share Image
Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control. — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
“We walked in silence towards Swinica, beyond which the road, worn by long-distance lorries, twisted and turned; we walked slowly, like one… — Wioletta Greg 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
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant… — Gabrielle Hamilton 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
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
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems… — Garrison Keillor 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 the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
