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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. -- John Dryden
Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control. -- Nuno Oliveira
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated. -- Frank Bruni
Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance. -- Amy Lowell
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. -- Michael Cunningham
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. -- Peggy Noonan
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose. -- Pattiann Rogers
I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music. -- Pattiann Rogers
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique. -- Willa Cather
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible -- Anne McCaffrey
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail -- Kathleen Raine
I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose. -- Pattiann Rogers
On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character. -- Kevin Hart
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. -- James Laughlin
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. -- Laura Linney
Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance. Find the questions that only you know how to ask and The answers that you are content to not know. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting. -- Aimee Mann
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull. -- MaryJanice Davidson
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull." -- MaryJanice Davidson
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All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it. -- Neil Young
The secret to freestyling is working on the creation of thought and it being expressed from your cerebral cortex, to the air in your lungs, to your larynx, pharynx, to your tongue to form a word via whatever consonants and vowels you're working with as well as having a sense of style, cadence, and rhythm. -- Myka 9
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too." -- Clayton Christensen
Your cadence is your music. -- William Shatner
To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet. -- Thomas Gray
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? -- Susanna Kaysen
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron. -- Giordano Bruno
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. -- Dave Grohl
The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures. -- Vera Farmiga
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. -- Cesare Pavese
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace. -- Juan Gabriel
There is a music that forms sometimes, from the pairing of two people. An inescapable cadence that continues on. -- Jason Mott
There is a music that forms sometimes, from the pairing of two people. An inescapable cadence that continues on." -- Jason Mott
When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler. -- Rod Milburn
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. -- Christopher Moore
When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural. -- Pusha T
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. -- Yannis Philippakis
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation. -- Richard M. Nixon
Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship. -- Steve Maraboli
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. -- Michael Chabon
The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear. -- lecrae
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. -- F. Sionil Jose
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy. -- Charles Baudelaire
Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special. -- Yelawolf
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses -- John Ruskin
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses. -- John Ruskin
There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem. -- Masiela Lusha

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