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.
Walter Neff: I get the general idea. She was a tramp from a long line of tramps.
[holding hands] Pat: Wait, what's this? Tiffany: I thought you were doing it. Pat: I thought you were doing it.
Pat Sr.: I guess his sixth sense forgot to tell him the cops were coming.
[to her sister and brother in law about Nikki being there] Tiffany: You're killing me!
Johnny Cash: WE SURRENDER! WE SURRENDER! June Carter: Y'all can't walk no line!
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
Every success story has a secret, Even if it’s a love story.
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story g...
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're give...
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.
