Syllables Quotes
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Syllables Quotes & Sayings
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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 moodin 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
We are only syllables of the perfect Word.
— Caryll Houselander
Why are there five syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?
— Steven Wright
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 threedusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
for: Bread, Peace, Land. — Carl Sandburg
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
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
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
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
Syllables govern the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
Because,' he said, like both syllables hurt.
— Rainbow Rowell
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
— Carl Sandburg