Spondees Quotes & Sayings

But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play. — Alan Bennett

It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees. — James Fenton

PRUELLA GOODE 1891-1929 I'M DEAD. LET'S HAVE A PARTY. He — Rick Riordan

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain. — Ray Walston

Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless. — Kellie Elmore

From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course. — Haruki Murakami

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model. — Eva Green

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark

So we beat on, boats against the current. — F Scott Fitzgerald