Syllables Quotes
62 quotes by 54 authors
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In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in…
— Fran Lebowitz
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We are only syllables of the perfect Word.
— Caryll Houselander
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So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy…
— Florence Littauer
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Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.
— Keith Murray
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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many…
— Walt Whitman
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
— Evan Esar
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Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
— Howard Tayler
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Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not…
— Gary Snyder
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When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already…
— Robert Pinget
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The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it…
— John Daniel
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Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her…
— Octavio Paz
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most…
— Edward Hirsch
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
— Carl Sandburg
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels…
— Alexander Pope
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Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
— William Safire
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