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Quotes About Rhythm

where to all species except the talkative have been allotted the niche and diet that become them. This, whatever micro- biology may think, is the world we really live in and that saves our sanity, who know all too well how the most erudite mind behaves in the dark without a surround it is called on to interpret, how, discarding rhythm, punctuation, metaphor, it sinks into a driveling monologue, too literal to see a joke or distinguish a penis from a pencil.
~ W.H. Auden
Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.
~ John Marin
The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
~ Curt Sachs
Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.
~ Peter Steinhart
One two, one two, Type a word or two. Arrow left, arrow right, Keep those fingers nice and tight.Keys up, Keys down, Move those digits all around.One two, one two, Type a word or two.
~ Jazz Feylynn
To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.
~ Matt de la Pena
Death is dancing me ragged.
~ Linda Hogan
Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
~ Colette Dowling
Lev-en-thal to Le-vov! Lev-en-thal to Le-vov!" was an anapest
~ Philip Roth
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
~ Plato
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity
~ Plato
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
~ Plato
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
~ Plato
isn't this why the rearing in music is most sovereign? Because rhythm and harmony most of all insinuate themselves into the inmost part of the soul and most vigorously lay hold of it in bringing grace with them; and they make a man graceful if he is correctly reared, if not, the opposite.
~ Plato
la melo­día se compone de tres elementos, que son letra, armonía y ritmo.
~ Plato
Tap-tap-tap is better than thump-thumpthump, Ivy said.
~ R.L. Stine
We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment.
~ Rachel Cohn
But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave them to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest--the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.
~ Unknown
Books have a sound too - turn their pages for enough hours and years and you start to rely on it, just as people who live by the shore assimilate the rhythm of the waves: the sweep and ripple marking the end of a page, a sound that seems to be made by the turning of your thoughts rather than the movement of your hand.
~ Rachel Kadish
Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
~ Dean Koontz
an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...
~ Dean Koontz
when we're plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.
~ Dean Koontz
I heard her surprise and then the sigh as we began the rhythm of connection and self-absorption, the miracle of sex.
~ Delia Ephron
Some were in Gaelic and some in English, used apparently according to which language best fitted the rhythm of the words, for all of them had a beauty to the speaking, beyond the content of the tale itself.
~ Diana Gabaldon