Top 117 Syllables Quotes & Sayings

In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

Syllables govern the world.

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.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased

'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.

What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

out of great Russia came three dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die for: Bread, Peace, Land.

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Some syllables are swords.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.

Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

that darkest of syllables, death.

We are only syllables of the perfect Word.

Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”?

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.

Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.