Quotes About Staccato

The universe was alive with staccato radio chatter and art and curiosity and wonder and change.

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do.

That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.

Lightning stood in ragged chains far to the south, silent, the staccato mountains bespoken blue and barren out of the void.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none