Staccato Quotes

#1. Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It's truth in an otherwise dishonest world.

Moryah DeMott

#3. His words clip out like bullets from a gun - sharp, staccato, shiver-inducing.

Julie Johnson

#4. A staccato script of letters and digits beamed from an alternate world. Then they ceased communicating altogether. and began to liase in dreams and nightmares.

Will Self

#5. The walls and windows popped in staccato percussion as they relinquished the heat of the day. The soft chimes of the mantle clock supplied a beckoning melody.

Laura Rudacille

#6. The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

Holly Hunter

#7. The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs.

H.G.Wells

#8. He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed.

R.J. Harlick

#9. The universe was alive with staccato radio chatter and art and curiosity and wonder and change.

Exurb1a

#10. Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror.
But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.

Peter J. Leithart

#11. These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

Brenda Ueland

#12. razor-thin hips glide across the lobby with determined expressions on their faces. The tapping of their stilettos on the marble floor rings out a harsh staccato rhythm like a machine gun. I've been working here for three

Evelyn Glass

#13. The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.

Tobias Dantzig

#14. I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

Dick Dale

#15. And I wished myself back - back to the future or wherever home was supposed to be - clicking my heels together in a frantic ticking heart staccato like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

Shannon Celebi

#16. That's what I love about Chicago ... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.

Ben Van Berkel

#17. These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information ...

Paul Simon

#18. He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Robert Cormier

#19. Time may be a river, but memory is a meteor shower, a staccato beat of energetic impacts.

James J. Houts

#20. Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

Charles Baudelaire

#21. In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I think the amount of longer conversations that radiated more warmth may have gone down.

Indra Nooyi

#22. I thought you didn't like staying after school."
"I didn't at first, but I kind of like it now."
"You do?"
He nodded. "Miss Andrews makes me feel special.

Nicholas Sparks

#23. Don't look for the precise and local. Simply; do not be narrow minded.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#24. Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days.

Mohammed Hanif

#25. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.

Rachel Cohn

#26. You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.

Saul Landau

#27. Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

Robert Greene