Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B. — Bobby Moynihan Copy Share Image
I just like to be great at what I do, and it's just a simple mentality. The hardest part for me is… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's… — Georgia Byng Copy Share Image
As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People always have these debates about who their favourite rapper is. And I think it's based upon what mood that particular person… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive. — Mika Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and… — William Regal Copy Share Image
My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance'… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
