I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue. — James Russell Lowell 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
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at… — Hermann Ebbinghaus 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
So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple… — Florence Littauer 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
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
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
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
"Hallelujah" is a joyous expression the Christians have, but "Hare Krishna" has a mystical side to it. It's more than just glorifying… — George Harrison 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams 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
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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