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
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see… — Don Helms 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
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the… — Samuel Laman Blanchard 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
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
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
The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! — Ben Jonson 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
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 grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the… — Billy Collins 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
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
