From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want… — Stan Lee 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
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes… — Robert Pinget Copy Share Image
May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away… — H. Peter Loewer Copy Share Image
The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not… — Richard Jackson 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
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul,… — William Cowper 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
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz… — Al Jarreau 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
When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the… — Lizzo Copy Share Image
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of… — William Tyndale 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
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at… — Wilson Bethel Copy Share Image
