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Ah, love, this is fear. This is fear and syllables
and the beginnings of beauty. — Robert Hass

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals. — Keith Murray

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables. — Vernon Duke

To convey one's mood
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic — John Cooper Clarke

I don't answer. I count in my head: five syllables, seven, five. A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil — Chuck Palahniuk

Some syllables are swords. — Henry Vaughan

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. — Anthony Marra

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. — James Fenton

This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters. — Charles Pearson

When he replied with her name, it sounded like a new word - the syllables remained the same, the meaning was different. — Ian McEwan

Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad. — Rick Riordan

We are only syllables of the perfect Word. — Caryll Houselander

Why are there five syllables in the word "monosyllabic"? — Steven Wright

i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full. — AVA.

Still may syllables jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never! — Ben Jonson

His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness. — Michael Ondaatje

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance. — Alexandra Katehakis

What makes you Vivian.' I liked the way he said my name, all throaty on the V's, all stretched to its rightful three syllables. — Beatriz Williams

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables. — Dave Barry

Life is a time when you get pleasure until somebody get your ass. and one of the ways to prolong pleasure is to not chop up time with syllables. — Padgett Powell

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. — C.S. Lewis

Lecktrickery? grinned the fool boys, rubbing their rabbits' feet against the spell of these longest syllables in all Tarnation. — William T. Vollmann

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. — John Ruskin

Out of great Russia came three
dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
for: Bread, Peace, Land. — Carl Sandburg

So many large words, as though syllables will hide the truth. — Sharon Mock

Lin-da." He parted the syllables very slightly, as with a comb. — Emily Fridlund

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 A. MacKinnon

The passions may be terrible, but the syllables are a relief. — Denis Donoghue

I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables. — William Shakespeare

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is. — George Carlin

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. — Norton Juster

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables. — Evan Esar

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South — Lord Byron

Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables? — Lindsay Faith Rech

writing fire and watching the syllables burn — Andrew Zawacki

People are not meant to be alone, as the word itself is made of two syllables. — Kimberlee Colon

So many large words, as though the syllables will hide the truth. — Sharon Mock

Three syllables and three thousand memories. — Diana Peterfreund

The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables. — Mary Shelley

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. — Carl Sandburg

But when you don't follow them up with any action, they're completely pointless. They're just sounds and syllables. But they mean absolutely nothing. — J. Sterling

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams ... — Aberjhani

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream. — Pablo Neruda

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue. — James Russell Lowell

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice. — Louise Erdrich

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something. — Howard Tayler

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year. — William Safire

Just get the right syllable in the proper place. — Jonathan Swift

That darkest of syllables, death. — Mary McMullen

and in those three syllables, Mustafa heard — Anonymous

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables. — Stan Lee

Syllables govern the world. — George Bernard Shaw

It was more than a kiss ... it was a sentence of unbroken kisses, the hot sweet syllables of lips and tongue making her drunk on sensation. — Lisa Kleypas

Because,' he said, like both syllables hurt. — Rainbow Rowell

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. — Jane Austen

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables. — Carl Sandburg