Syllable Quotes

75 Syllable quotes by 69 unique authors

What are you? (Zarek) I’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
In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do… — J R Ward
..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable. — Rainbow Rowell
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from… — Henry David Thoreau
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to… — Branch Rickey
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda. — Richard Dawkins
With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable. — Michael Shanks
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song. — Kate Smith
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
Love is not singular except in syllable. — Unknown Author
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays… — William Shakespeare
Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life. — Dejan Stojanovic
I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from… — Henry David Thoreau
Love is only A one syllable word but it's the most powerful one mankind's ever heard. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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