Accentual Quotes

#1. Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.

Stephen Burt

#2. Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.

Andy Murray

#3. The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#4. We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass.

Tom Althouse

#5. I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

Melody Beattie

#6. Sometimes, when we are labeled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling;

John Irving

#7. I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Gordon Strachan

#8. someday is not a day of a week

Anonymous

#9. Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more.

Marvin Minsky

#10. What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

Grantly Dick-Read

#11. I'm about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad's going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking's like ping-pong: you take turns.

David Mitchell