Rhyming Quotes

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

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

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

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

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

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

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

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

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

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

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

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

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

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.

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

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

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

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.

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.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

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

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

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.

I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.