Syllables Quotes

62 quotes by 54 authors

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
We are only syllables of the perfect Word. — Caryll Houselander
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
Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals. — Keith Murray
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
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
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables. — Evan Esar
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something. — Howard Tayler
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg
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
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
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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