We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home — Troy Ave Copy Share Image
The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what… — Anne Stevens Copy Share Image
Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars. — Lord Finesse Copy Share Image
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I just make [music] for the people that always enjoyed hearing from me. I make it for people that enjoy the energy… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5… — David Barton Copy Share Image
I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to… — Savannah Guthrie Copy Share Image
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image