Old Rhyming Quotes & Sayings

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful. — Barry Manilow

Read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence. — Laura E. Richards

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Each thing implies the universe. — Jorge Luis Borges

It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion. — Edwin Balmer

Problems are always there for those who are looking for them
So look for the solution, not the road block or the problem. — Debasish Mridha

The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed. — Sol LeWitt

My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate. — China Mieville

It is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself — Andrzej Stasiuk

She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse. — Anthony Marra

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it. — Hoodie Allen

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. — George Ade

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models ... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written. — Alberto Manguel

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work. — Phil Klay