Accentual Syllabic 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. Reckon I'd be lyin' iffen I didn't own up to feelin' a little sore here an' there," Willie said with a grin. "An' thet's all thet yer gonna git me to confess. Full-grown able-bodied man shouldn't be admittin' to even thet. Folks will be thinkin' thet I never worked a day in my life.

Janette Oke

#3. I want to drink from you're life force.

Truth Devour

#4. Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.

Salman Rushdie

#5. I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.

Ja Rule

#6. It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Your calling is important, regardless of its status or other people's opinion

Sunday Adelaja

#8. I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

John Hall

#9. That was me, angel.

J.M. Darhower

#10. I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

Stella McCartney

#11. My mother was very protective of her four boys.

Maurice Saatchi

#12. St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Valentina Matviyenko

#13. My brain, my body, my whole life was on fast-forward and I couldn't push stop or even pause. How low it got after, living with what had happened. And then how numb. How much I missed feeling music in my bones.

Emery Lord

#14. It's very hard to believe that I'm feeling this. It's like I've been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don't want to die again!

Dan Skinner

#15. The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

Mark Sheppard

#16. A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.

Karlfried Graf Durckheim