Quotes with rhythm

  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
  • I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
  • Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
  • I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
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  • Plato Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Henry Miller A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Eliot A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bill Bruford And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Joan Didion I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Allen Tate I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bruno Dumont I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Assata Shakur I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Barbara Cook New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
    Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer (1927 - 2017)
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  • Ajay Naidu Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • D. H. Lawrence Sex goes through the rhythm of the year, in man and woman, ceaselessly changing: the rhythm of the sun in his relation to the earth.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Aldous Huxley The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Hybels The time of day we choose for prayer doesn't matter, so long as we keep it faithfully. Prayer must be part of the rhythm of our daily lives.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Erica Jong There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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