Cadences For Marching Quotes & Sayings

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him. — Edgar Allan Poe

Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction. — Samuel Johnson

Ronan's expression was still incendiary. His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn't that he didn't condone them; he couldn't understand — Maggie Stiefvater

Life is safer alone. There's no truer fact. — Bijou Hunter

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being ... ultimate reality is what we call God. — R.S. Thomas

If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep your health insurance plan — Ron Fournier

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've got it all down. But then another, different situation arises. — Russell Crowe

For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection. — Ann Voskamp

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there. — Seamus Heaney