#syllable

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

#club #come #concert #concert hall #dear

Syllables govern the world. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#syllables #world

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

#every #grasp #important #meaning #meaning of

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

#back #ever #every #had #hit

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

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

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

#chance #construct #different #drawn #each

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#network #protective #shows #syllable #writers

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. ↗

— Jean Philippe Rameau

#rhythm #sounds #syllables

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

— William Safire

#fighting #known #light #political #previously

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 MacKinnon

#equality #fact #humiliation #merely #nonsense