Rhyming Quotes - Page 2

• His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

  Lewis Carroll

  Water, Answers

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

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• I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

  Missy Elliot

  Mean, Rhyme, Mines

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• I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

  Tre Cool

  Song, Nurse, Alphabet

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• I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

  Jill Scott

  Years, May, Rhyme

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• Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
  MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Rap, People

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• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  Ezra Pound

  Sweet, Feet, Patterns

  "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.

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• I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

  Anne Stevenson

  Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  Isaac Hayes

  Art, Brother, School

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

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• Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Sound, Uniforms, Structure

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• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Masculine And Feminine, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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• Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

  Howard Nemerov

  Literature, Rhyme

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• Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Forever

  "Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

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• I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

  Saul Williams

  Rhyme, Making Up

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• I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Thinking, Talking, Competition

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• I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

  David Gallagher

  Girl, Weekend, Dancing

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

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• A rhyme doesn't make a song.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Rhyme

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• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Doe, Citing, Speak

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• I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

  Busta Rhymes

  Song, Believe, People

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

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• I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Money, Tired

  Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Fatigued"

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• Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

  Trick Daddy

  Mean, Rapper, Use

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• The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

  Dizzy Dean

  Funny, Baseball, Stupid

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

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• To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

  Mos Def

  Singing, Different, Natural

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• The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

  Big Pun

  Albums, World, Firsts

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• In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Math, Strange

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

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• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Wisdom, Stupid People

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 612

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