Rhythm Quotes

944 Rhythm quotes by 751 unique authors

Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… — Oliver Sacks
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side… — John O'Donohue
And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own… — Anne Rice
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind… — Joyce Carol Oates
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. — C.S. Lewis
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both… — Madeleine L'Engle
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the… — Rabindranath Tagore
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The… — Anne Lamott
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and… — Anne Lamott
The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest… — Alice Sebold
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now… — Jack Kerouac
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.… — Elizabeth Bishop
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his… — Guy Davenport
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere,… — Khalil Gibran
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was… — Salman Rushdie
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth… — Stephen Fry
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm,… — David Cronenberg
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity,… — John O'Donohue
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The… — Ingmar Bergman
When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its… — Michael Jackson
Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless… — Michael Jackson

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