Syllable Quotes

75 Syllable quotes by 69 unique authors

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
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 rude—" 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

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