Syllables Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “Syllables govern the world.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Syllables World
“Syllables and letters may not be tangible, but they can still destroy your entire life faster than a bullet from a gun. One word.… — Aly Martinez Copy Share Image
“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
“Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning of stress… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many… — Don Helms Copy Share Image
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
