The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
3 Words 8 Letters 2 Nouns 3 Syllables 5 vowels 3 Consanants 1 Emotion Many meanings A big lie, a rare truth I LOVE YOU... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word. — T. S. Eliot 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
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment,… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance… — Walt Whitman 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
We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease… — Ralph Fiennes 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my… — Isaac Marion 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
Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from… — Julian Jaynes 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best… — Stephen Karam 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
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature… — Henry Adams 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
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
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of… — Branch Rickey 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
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear… — Alexander Pope 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
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell 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
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
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
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