We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty,… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is… — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act… — Umar Copy Share Image
When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
