Quotes About Syllable

Norm Zuckerman spoke in a first-grade-teacher singsong. "You can answer orally, Myron, by uttering the syllable 'no.' Or if that's too taxing on your limited vocabulary, you can merely shake your head from side to side like this." Norm demonstrated.

If you want to say that a word has a circumflex on its penultimate syllable, without saying flat out that it has a circumflex there, there is a word for it: properispomenon.

How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

La raíz es Aum o Um, que por lo demás es el Om budista, es el nombre de Dios en la lengua adámica. Um es una sílaba que, debidamente pronunciada, se convierte en un mantra poderosísimo y provoca en la psique corrientes fluídicas de armonía a través de la siakra o Plexo Frontal.

His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it.

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

Oh, Westley, I didn't mean that, I didn't, I didn't, not a single syllabub of it." Now Westley knew that she meant to say "not a single syllable of it," because a syllabub was something you ate, with cream and wine mixed in together to form the base. But he also knew an apology when he heard one. So he held her very close, and shut his loving eyes, and only whispered, "I knew it was false, believe me, every single syllabub.

To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

The sound-syllable Om represents the fundamental thought-form of all-pervading reality.

Love is not singular except in syllable.

Love is not singular except in syllable.

In Tristram Shandy there is a passage which describes how two nuns, believing that the only way to shift an obstinate mule was to say "bugger," are hampered by the knowledge that to utter such a word was most sinful. They split it up between them. Neither syllable on its own could possibly be sinful, so one shouts "bou, bou, bou" and the other "ger, ger, ger.