#syllable

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. ↗

— Don Henley

#i #like #people #put #right

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fire #learn #light #out #read

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. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#been #conditions #forgotten #heart #inner

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#chloe #closed #curse #doors #even

I'm excited about going back to 'Today,' but, at odd moments, I'll grit my teeth in anxiety. I feel like a student before the start of school. I've got my new shoes and my book bag, but I'm not sure I'll remember how to do trigonometry. During my maternity leave, I haven't used many words of more than one syllable. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#anxiety #back #bag #before #book

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#act #capacity #case #consciousness #familiarity

Syllables govern the world. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#syllables #world

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song. ↗

— Kate Smith

#every #grasp #important #meaning #meaning of

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#back #ever #every #had #hit

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#grammar #maniac #syllable #vowels #grammar