Rhyme Quotes - Page 13

• The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Glorious, Verses

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.53, Arktos

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• There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

  Woody Allen

  Reason, Seems

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• I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?

  J. D. McClatchy

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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• I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something I'm going to dedicate more time to doing.

  James Paxton

  Witty, Guitar, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

  King Louie

  Kings, Life Is Like, Motion Pictures

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• Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

  David Rakoff

  Would Be, Answers, Why Me

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

  Mika

  Childhood, Records, Fairytale

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

  Travie McCoy

  Intelligent, Hip Hop, Inspire

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• The rhyme of the poet
  Modulates the king's affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Poetry, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.144, The Floating Press

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• And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

  Norton Juster

  Sweet, Princess, Sight

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins. And 'matter'," said Blister. Also 'fatter,'" said Ripkins. Likewise 'chatter'," added Blister. And his surname?" Arch asked. It rhymes with 'that again'," said Ripkins. And 'Flanagan," put in Blister. Also, um...'pad a fin'?" offered Ripkins. Arch and Blister looked at him. 'Pannikin!'" he said proudly. Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Molly screamed. "You don't know what you're talking about!

  Frank Beddor

  Father, Talking, Names

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• There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Educational, Two, People

  "Child Psychology and Nonsense" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, October 15, 1921.

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• Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Fool

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• History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

  Mark Twain

  History, Sometimes, Repeats

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• Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;
  Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
  Some rhyme to court the countra clash,
  An' raise a din;
  For me, an aim I never fash;
  I rhyme for fun.

  Robert Burns

  Fun, Names, Poetry

  'To J. S[mith]' (1786) st. 5

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• Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Best Love, Kissing, Bliss

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.212, Lulu.com

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• What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  New Year, Dream, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• I cast my heart into my rhymes,
  That you, in the dim coming times,
  May know how my heart went with them
  After the red-rose-bordered hem.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flower, Heart, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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• And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

  Franklin P. Adams

  Volunteer, Glad, Prose

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Maud Muller Mutatur”

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• We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Memories, Science, Names

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.249, Oxford University Press

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• If skills sold truth be told
  I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
  Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil)
  I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Skills, Common Sense

  "Song: 'Moment of Clarity'". 2003.

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• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  Ice Cube

  Son, Looks, Like Me

  "Ice Cube Talks New Album, ‘Everythang’s Corrupt,’ NWA Film And Chris Tucker Returning To ‘Friday’". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Rhyming

  "Song: 'Ugly'". 2001.

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• I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

  Shane Koyczan

  Lonely, Hurt, Falling In Love

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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