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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… — 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… — 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… — Walt Whitman
- In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author