Accentual Syllabic Quotes & Sayings

Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we had more time...If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower. — Richard O'Connor

Whoever Jon's mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely, for nothing Catelyn said would persuade him to send the boy away. — George R R Martin

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household. — Anthony Horowitz

Safety is always in the back of one's mind, never forgotten or ignored. Safety is not an arbitrary set of rules, but rather the practical application of knowledge, as common-sense requirements and practices that should be thoroughly understood and followed.

If hazards of any nature are recognized and respected, they largely cease to be hazards. — Charles F. Chapman

It's funny what kind of hell you can get used to. — William Lashner

Because her boils had erupted — Katherine Boo

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice. — Mel White

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed. — Norman Geras

Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back. — Stephen Burt

Luc let out a strangled, hoarse laugh. Oh shit. ET so phoned home, kids. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting." — Aaron Zigman

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married. — Russ Feingold