Syllable Quotes
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Syllable Quotes & Sayings
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I tried to make sense of the Four Books,until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable. — Yunus Emre
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
— Don DeLillo
With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.
— Michael Shanks
Still it tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow again writhes in this petty pace from day to day until the last syllable of the recorded time
— William Shakespeare
Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.
— Mark Forsyth
He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,And airy tongues that syllable men's names. — John Milton
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.
— Sinead O'Connor
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.
— Susan Howe
I write in terror ... I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.
— Cynthia Ozick
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
— Audrey Niffenegger
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
— Hortense Calisher
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
— William Cowper
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.
— David Mitchell
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
As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.
— Chloe Grace Moretz
Oberon Did Middle English hounds bark with an extra syllable on the end? like 'woofe'?
— Kevin Hearne
What are you? (Zarek)I'm a nymph. (Astrid)
I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His every syllable flirted.
— John Green
There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.
— Hilary Mantel
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
Be cautious not to utter a syllable! Step not out of the circle, and as you love yourself, dare not to look upon my face!
— Matthew Gregory Lewis
Each movement was a syllable leading to a greater meaning.
— Lisa Kleypas
Love is only A one syllable word but it's the most powerful one mankind's ever heard.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!
— Michel De Montaigne
She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.
— Misty May-Treanor
Aaron would never make up anything like that.""That's because Aaron doesn't say anything that requires words of more than one syllable. — Richelle Mead
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
— Don Henley
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
— Kevin Spacey
The Brain is just the weight of GodFor
Heft them
Pound for Pound
And they will differ
if they do
As Syllable from Sound — Emily Dickinson
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 my seniors.
— Henry David Thoreau
To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
— William Shakespeare
my incessantly syllable-excreting mind
— Gunter Grass
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
— Jonathan Swift
Line by Line, Word by Word, Syllable by Syllable!
— Carl McKever
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
— Hanif Kureishi