Most Recited Quotes

#1. Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night. - Author: Pico Iyer

#2. What a mouse he is made by conversation,' " Ezri recited. " 'Scorns gods, dares battle, and flinches from a maid's rebuke! Merest laugh from merest girl is like a dagger felt, and like a dagger, makes a lodging of his breast. Turns blood to milkwater and courage to faint memory.' - Author: Scott Lynch

#3. Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. - Author: Hermann Ebbinghaus

#4. Look before you leap. Don't take risks lightly. Make sure someone is watching your back. Safety is a shifting illusion, move with it," Grandpa recited in Hadadian before leaning forward and adding his own little ending, "And pray. Trust that God knows best, in every situation. - Author: Jessiqua Wittman

#5. POETS day," he reminded Siobhan. "Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday," she recited. - Author: Ian Rankin

#6. Hermione recited at top speed: "Golpalott's-Third-Law-states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components. - Author: J.K. Rowling

#7. In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. - Author: Donald Hall

#8. My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands. - Author: Bob Dylan

#9. I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. - Author: Cecelia Ahern

#10. What is infinite?" she recited. I knew that text well. "The universe and the greed of men," I quoted back to her. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#11. Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#12. I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye ... although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry! - Author: Iain Dowie

#13. Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet. - Author: Cornelius Eady

#14. and Ravn recited a long poem about some ancient hero who killed a monster and then the monster's mother who was even more fearsome than her son, but I was too drunk to remember much of it. And - Author: Bernard Cornwell

#15. In the back of my mind, my mother's often-recited warning comes to me: 'Never trust a man who can dance. - Author: E.L. James

#16. Sure I do," countered Lila cheerfully. "There's Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London," she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. "See? I'm a fast learner. - Author: V.E Schwab

#17. She smiled sadly and recited a saying: "When the guest leaves, the tea will soon get cold." I said my cup of tea would never get cold. Lu - Author: Anchee Min

#18. He recited, "My mother was a bird of fire. She bore me swaddled over the ruined cities of my sisters. We rained a sea of flame upon our brother, and brought them aloft again. Transformed. Our mothers burned the cities. We keep the ruins. - Author: Kameron Hurley

#19. I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. - Author: Shakira

#20. God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. - Author: Voltaire

#21. All's fair in love and war'. I could hear the vain grin on his lip as he recited the idiom. - Author: Nely Cab

#22. Noah recited his next title. The New Adventures of Curious - Author: Michelle Hodkin

#23. For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me. - Author: Cornelius Eady

#24. He paused, and then he recited with wry mournfulness the beginning of a poem he had learned to scream in Bermuda, when he was a little boy. The poem was all the more poignant, since it mentioned two nations which no longer existed as such. "I see England," he said, "I see France - - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#25. The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course. - Author: James Fenton

#26. Things have made you what you are," she recited "What you are will make you what you will become. - Author: Samuel R. Delany

#27. Ivy gave the woman's hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. "What do you need?" she asked. "We're holding up." That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth. - Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#28. When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing. - Author: Nina Arianda

#29. There is no past, memory paints it,' " the pope recited. " 'There is no future, for hope shapes it. There is only the present, but it is always escaping us. - Author: David I. Kertzer

#30. The city's legions of working men disagreed. They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, "Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent French and German, and recited lengthy passages from Shakespeare. - Author: Erik Larson