Syllable Quotes

75 quotes by 69 authors

I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find… — Virginia Woolf
To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit of Christ. — Thomas S. Monson
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley
Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every… — Louise Penny
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in… — Wallace Stevens
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very… — Sinead O'Connor
Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner,… — Nachman of Breslov
The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable. — Dag Hammarskjold
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed… — Jay Griffiths
Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth.… — Paul Feig
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this… — Henry Adams
I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a… — Yelawolf
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and… — William Cowper
I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they… — Billy Connolly
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but… — James Fenton
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. — Victor Hugo
Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I… — Jodi Picoult
There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon… — Lysander Spooner
She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked… — Misty May-Treanor

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