Syllable Quotes

75 quotes by 69 authors

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays… — William Shakespeare
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from… — Dag Hammarskjold
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want… — Pablo Neruda
I don't mean to be rudeâ€”" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I… — Audrey Niffenegger
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were… — Octavio Paz
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs… — Rick Moody
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day. — David Mitchell
Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere.… — Jerry Spinelli
What are you? (Zarek) Iâ€™m a nymph. (Astrid) I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease… — Emily Dickinson
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time.… — Emily Giffin
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of… — Richard Powers
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life — John Green
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it… — Dodie Smith
Utterance" Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the… — W S Merwin
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. — Don DeLillo
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. — Wislawa Szymborska

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