And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of… — Paul Hirsch Copy Share Image
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Rhythm, melody, message, that's what matters. Our main concern coming out of the gate is to make sure those foundations are strong,… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because… — Frederic Goudy Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes… — Squarepusher Copy Share Image
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun.… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of… — Three Initiates Copy Share Image
You do have habits and rhythms that you do sort of fall into when you're acting, but if you've got text that… — Radha Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Interestingly, one summer I was visiting my sister in U.S.A., and I learned how to play the rhythm of 'The Cup' song,… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya: You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now. Block the… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
