“I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables. — Vernon Duke Copy Share Image
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight.… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
