Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted:… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that interests me more than travel, I declare; and if I had had my health, I should have been… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“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,… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
“a faster cadence put less stress on the muscles, transferring the load from the physical (the muscle fibers) to a better place:… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“No. The Cadence believes that the battles of men should be allowed to progress without interference. Both the Cadence and the Spina… — K. Huber Copy Share Image
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated. — Frank Bruni 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
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 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
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 probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the… — Aimee Mann 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 come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor 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
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
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
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I go all the way back to the Hot Boys days and being 13, listening to this dude. Just remembering the staple… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you… — Pattiann Rogers 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's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into… — Corey Hawkins 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
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
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
“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 always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to… — T.C. Boyle 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
For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and… — Charles Baudelaire 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
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image