Quotes of Rhythm - somelinesforyou

“ Diagnosis, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I like to see you move with the rhythm; I Like to see when you're dancing' from within. ”

- Bob Marley

“ I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. ”

- Thom Gunn

“ It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep. ”

- Janet Frame

“ I'm just trying to get in, it's not like I'm running for Jesus. ”

- Homer Simpson

“ Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres. ”

- David Coleman

“ Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are. ”

- Mickey Hart

“ The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it. ”

- John Hunter

“ I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break; and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ Think of the steady, reassuring rhythm of the natural world — the ebb and flow of the tides, the recurring cycle of the the four seasons, the monthly phases of the moon, and the daily progression from day into night. Rhythm needs to be the cornerstone in our personal world as well…Restoring rhythm to the way you conduct your affairs can bring you contentment and a sense of well-being that will nurture and sustain you when the cares of the world can't be left behind. ”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

“ Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ I can't explain why Americans dropped the last cha in cha-cha-cha. It was either laziness or a lack of rhythm. ”

- Omar Torres

“ Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ”

- Warren Spahn

“ Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. ”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

“ A wonderful stream is the river Time, As it runs through the realms of Tears, With a faultless rhythm, and a musical rhyme, As it blends with the Ocean of Years. ”

- Benjamin F. Taylor

“ Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. ”

- Don Miguel Ruiz

“ Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything. ”

- Joe Pass

“ Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself. ”

- Andre Kertesz

“ Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse — yours or anyone else's. ”

- Marianne Williamson

“ It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. ”

- Knute Rockne

“ My publisher couldn't believe the timing. ”

- Barbara Boxer

“ I consider myself to be a Main Street, mainstream Conservative, and I think there are a lot of Canadians who place themselves there. ”

- Peter MacKay

“ Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? ”

- Walter Pater

“ Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it. ”

- Lloyd Doggett

“ Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. ”

- Adam Smith

“ In truth, has no beginning and no end, for it is the very pulse of life itself. ”

- Larry Williams
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