Quotes About Syllable

When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.

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.

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

Love's stricken why Is all that love can speak— Built of but just a syllable, The hugest hearts that break.

The Martyr Poets The Martyr Poets — did not tell — But wrought their Pang in syllable — That when their mortal name be numb — Their mortal fate — encourage Some — The Martyr Painters — never spoke — Bequeathing — rather — to their Work That when their conscious fingers cease — Some seek in Art — the Art of Peace —

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

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.

I think about the apocalyptic mess I've created in the trolley. "Organization happens to be one of my fortes." "Fort," he says. "What?" I say. "Apparently it's pronounced fort. Not fort-tay. One syllable, as in Knox.

final syllable of Bowie's 'Suffragette City'—the word suffragette being, perhaps not coincidentally, among the McCartney song's lyrics).

His voice bore an astonishing faith, in the slow and beautiful way it trilled sentences, in the way it braided each syllable.

Open the Koran, which is perfect in its every syllable

APHÆRESIS  (APHÆ'RESIS)   n.s.[   figure in grammarthat takes away a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Like friendship, words sometimes swell, at the dreamer's will, in the loop of a syllable.

No!" Linus sounds really shocked. Shocked, embarrassed, discomfited. Kind of mortified. Like he can't believe I would say that. (I'm getting all this from one syllable, you understand.)

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

Love's stricken "why"Is all that love can speak—Built of but just a syllableThe hugest hearts that break.

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

I'm getting on pretty well with German, though I haven't arrived at the stage of finding it a reasonable medium for the expression of thought. I think the original couple who spoke it must have died rather soon after the Tower of Babel, leaving a rather pedantically-minded baby, who had learnt all the words of one syllable, and had to make up the long ones with them – at least how else can you account for such words as Handschule and be-ab-sichtigen? I