The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“People are not meant to be alone, as the word itself is made of two syllables.” — Kimberlee Colon 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
DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice. — Louise Erdrich 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
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
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
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
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
3 words, 8 letters, 3 syllables, 5 vowels, 3 consonants, 2 nouns, one emotion, many meanings, a big lie, a rare truth: I LOVE YOU! — Anonymous 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
From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche 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
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone… — J Sterling 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
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
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton 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
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by… — John Ruskin 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
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
The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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