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Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Communication
Syllables
World
Govern
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Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
Jean-Philippe Rameau / Composer
Born
Rhythm
Sound
Syllables
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
Don Delillo / Writer
Fall
Persons
Syllables
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To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic
John Cooper Clarke / Poet
Mood
Seventeen
Syllables
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Vernon Duke / Composer
Rhythm
Syllables
Meant
Required
Visit
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Carl Sandburg / Writer
Poetry
Barriers
Syllables
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A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
Bonnie Mckee /
Syllables
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They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
C. S. Lewis / Novelist
Long
Syllables
Twenties
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
James Fenton / Poet
Lines
Manageable
Poetic
Relaxed
Syllables
Somewhere
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Tahar Ben Jelloun / Writer
Mother
Mother Tongue
Syllables
Tongue
Universe
Wells
Words
Expressed
Well
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Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
William Safire / Author
Fighting
Light
Reconciliation
Six
Sweetness
Syllables
Years
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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.
Douglas Adams / Writer
Interesting
Syllables
Wonderful
Fan
Fiddling
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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 / Poet
Easier
Lines
Numbers
Odd
Opinion
Syllables
Avoid
In My Opinion
Pattern
Rhythms
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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.
Derek Walcott / Poet
Discipline
Inherent
Syllables
Poem
Requisite
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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 / Psychologist
Conditions
Forgotten
Heart
Series
Syllables
Talking
Anew
Inner
Similar
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'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 / Recording Artist
Amount
Azaleas
Dog
Names
Syllables
Named
Street
Iggy
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Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.
Al Jarreau / Singer
Jazz
Singers
Syllables
Gospel
Churches
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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.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Alphabet
Eleven
Syllables
Constructed
Placed
Vowel
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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 / Psychologist
Series
Syllables
Construct
Drawn
Each Time
Formed
Material
Mixed
Several
Test
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It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.
Jeremih / Record Producer
Syllables
Me People Sometimes
Messes
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In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
David Byrne / Musician
Literal
Melody
Syllables
Tongue
Actual
Certain Way
Fits
Sung
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
Vik Muniz / Artist
Syllables
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Entered
Herself
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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.
Hermann Ebbinghaus / Psychologist
Capacity
Consciousness
Familiarity
Repetition
Sequence
Series
Seven
Syllables
Unfamiliar
Frequent
Gradually
Increased
Increasing
One Act
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You can approach the guitar like a voice. That's the best way of looking at it. If you are singing, you can't keep going a million miles an hour. You can only fit so many syllables in, so think about what you can sing through your guitar. Players like David Gilmour and Neal Schon are great at that kind of thing.
John Petrucci / Guitarist
Approach
Best Way
Fit
Guitar
Miles
Singing
Syllables
David
Hour
Million
Sing
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On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
Ron Rash / Poet
Character
Focus
Including
Stage
Stressed
Syllables
Trying
Vowels
Began
Drafts
Ending
Letting
Rub
Surprised
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I wanted there to be something to fill the space and to catch the listener's ear, but I didn't want there to be any 'Virtual Self' songs that had a clearly defined vocal with lyrics and top line. If you do hear any lyrics, it's just your brain filling in the gap, because those moments are just various syllables combined.
Porter Robinson /
Defined
Syllables
Vocal
Catch
Combined
Ear
Fill
Gap
Listener
Virtual
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I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at breaking stuff down into syllables and sounds. If I were to be doing anything else besides being an actor, I would be a professional charades player. I'm not sure if it exists, but if it didn't, I'll create it.
Wilson Bethel /
Dinner
Syllables
Anything Else
Good Doing Anything
Besides
Breaking
Dinner Parties
Exists
Parties
Professional
Sounds
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