Quotes of: Syllables Keyword

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Misty May-Treanor

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Annie Dillard

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

Yelawolf

Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?

It Started with a Dare

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

The Last Olympian

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

Sinead O'Connor

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

Tahar Ben Jelloun

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Kate Smith

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.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

'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.

Iggy Azalea

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.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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.

James Fenton

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

William Safire

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

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

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

Emperor Pius Dei

There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that's more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.

Fangirl

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.

I Want

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.

Billy Connolly