Pentameters Quotes & Sayings

Her mum was talking like the Queen. Well, the Queen's slightly rougher sister from Salford. — Vicky Pattison

Wasn't loving him like loving the sun, so beautiful and warm, essential to light but deadly if you got too close? — Jenny Trout

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in. — Norman Jewison

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil. — Ayn Rand

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know. — Vikram Seth

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. — Ambrose Bierce

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty. — Russell M. Nelson

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. — Northrop Frye

I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters. — Philip Palmer