Rime Quotes

#1. I will not make a sonnet from
Each little private martyrdom;
Nor out of love left dead with time
Construe a stanza or a rime.

We do not suffer to afford
The searched for and the subtle word:
There is too much that may not be
At the caprice of prosody.

Joseph Auslander

#2. There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Charles Dickens

#3. Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.

Hannah Kent

#4. The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

Noah Webster

#5. Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Thomas Hood

#6. 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

#7. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

Ben Okri

#8. Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.

Bill Bryson

#10. The poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#11. My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Liza Minnelli

#12. And I was just there, less than an hour ago, debugging subroutines in my cubicle, when a motherfucking Earth Defense Alliance shuttle suddenly shows up and lands right outside my office building! I figured I must be losing it. Now I'm not sure what to think.

Ernest Cline

#13. Once, when we were wild, sugar intoxicated us, the first narcotic we craved and languished in. We've tamed, refined it, but the juice from a peach still runs like a flash flood.

Stephanie Danler

#14. United States of Europe will resemble USA, where the Poland state will be a lot more like Dakota than New York.

Przemek Skwirczynski

#15. He's never stared at her like this before. Sometimes he gazed at her as if he wanted to be her undoing, but just then it was as if he wanted her to undo him.

Stephanie Garber

#16. As a person ... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

Russell Brand

#17. If I believed the stories I learned growing up, God made the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. I wonder if, like me, the eighth day was when he watched it all begin to unravel.

Cora Carmack

#18. skintight layer of clothing that extends from my feet to my neck that's supposed to help improve my hypertrophic scarring. The Iron Maiden describes hypertrophic scarring as skin that exhibits the three Rs of being red,

Alan Russell

#19. If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

James Surowiecki

#20. I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

Cindy Crawford

#21. I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Henri Bergson

#22. Nothing is static.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.

Richard Nickel