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«The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dimly, drifts, fauna, gateway, gateways, human activity, Human Touch, lighthouse, lighthouses, light touch, lit, luxuriate, luxuriates, Marine, Marines, plait, Plaited, plaiting, slur, slurred, slurs, syllable, The Gateway, The Lighthouse, The Touch, vegetation, zones
«A one-syllable word sounds better with Inc. A longer word has better rhythm with Corporation.»
«Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS! of DIRE! ImPORTance!»
«FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Finance
| Keywords:
accent, discoveries, finance, finances, Managing, possessions, pronunciation, revenues, syllable, syllables
«I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Advice,
World
| Keywords:
earnest, seniors, syllable, syllables, Thirty Years
«A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses»
«To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.»
«Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
creeps, Day to Day, dusty, lighted, pace, petty, recorded, syllable, syllables, yesterdays
«Philologists who chase / A panting syllable through time and space, / Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, / To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Gaul, Greece, panting, syllable, syllables, time and space
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