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“My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?”

“It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'”

Writing Sound Speech Various Technique Rhythm Breathing I've Learned Nonsense Unusual Conventional Rambling

Author:Dario Fo

“When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.”

Ifs Helping Loses Circumstances Harmony Adversity Rhythm Keep Going

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.”

People Feels Years Littles Wanted Feel Good Rhythm Halls Concerts New Year Sections Orchestra Symphony Philadelphia New Years Eve Rhythm Section

Author:Barbara Cook

“But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.”

Years Helping Song Roles Skills Guitar Come Up Rhythm I've Learned Melody Vocal

Author:Krist Novoselic

“As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers”

Children House Path Flower Balls Caught Rhythm Jumping Rope Identical Pavement Wrinkle In Time

Book:A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy

Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy

“Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.”

Doe Form Prison Defense Punishment Rhythm Capitalist Principal Transfers

Author:Antonio Negri

“Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.”

People Thinking Kind Ideas Character Care Perspective Unique Weakness Rhythm Chemicals Traits Uniqueness Think Of You One Of A Kind Character Trait

Author:Robert Greene

“My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.”

Concern Rhythm

Book:Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance

Source: Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance

“In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.”

Mind Doe Order Events Conservative Intellect Rhythm Shock Contrast Accommodate Upheaval Metropolitan

Book:The Sociology of Georg Simmel

Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel

“I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.”

Trying Feelings Animal Air Blood Movement Painting Flow All Things Contact Rhythm Colour Absurdity

Author:Franz Marc

“A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.”

Scene Structure Rhythm

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.”

Ifs Sound Worst Wind Music Is Empty Pops Oil Bars Rhythm Brands Continents Contests Asia Truck Asian Karaoke Chimes

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.”

Way Writing Body Moving Certain Song Exercise Rhythm

Author:Patty Griffin

“The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.”

People Fighting Determine Rhythm

Author:Federica Montseny

“Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.”

World Would Be Form Birth Rhythm Perpetual Static Birth And Death Transmutation

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.”

Ifs Want Mean Today Fighting Tomorrow Determine Rhythm Tempo

Author:Carlo Petrini

“The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm”

Life Is Jazz Rhythm Rhythm Of Life

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940

“I like to stay in the rhythm of things.”

Rhythm

Author:Marissa Mayer

“The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.”

Focus Balance Golf Rhythm

Author:Hale Irwin

“Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.”

Needs Firsts Moving Instruments Rhythm First Love

Author:Patrick Stump

“I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen.”

Heart Kind Eye Running Death Poor Gone Fate Dying My Heart Garden Fingers Obvious Rhythm Gray Oxygen Impermanence Rakes Cramps Flexing

Book:The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography

Source: The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography

“I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.”

Thinking Wells Week Rhythm Specialty

Author:Hermann Maier

“It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.”

“Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.”

“There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.”

Light Certain Process Awareness Sorrow Shadow Satisfaction Rhythm Contrast Variation Richness Captured Discontent Light And Shadow

Author:Louis Bromfield

“It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.”

Funny Rhythm Faster Orchestra

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!”

Problem Bigs Able My Own Rooms Demand Work Out Decades Rhythm My Time Shouting Naps

Author:Maria Semple

“The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.”

Walks Poet Rhythm Carriages

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.”

Men World Made America Song White Walks Horse West Folks Rhythm Chiefs Contribution Texas Cowboy White Man Folk Music Folk Songs Galloping American West Trotting

Author:J. Frank Dobie

“The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.”

May Used Poetry Term Simple Subjects Involved Mathematics Nine Rhythm Consideration Ethical Verses Rhyme Convenient Meter Pedantry

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.”

Ifs War Feelings Simple Subjects Fundamentals Rhythm Rhyme Simplest Vines Love Death

Author:James Fenton

“We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.”

People Ifs Heart Made Two Different Wanted Differences Holy Unique Beats Rhythm Made It Schemes Imposing Heart Beat Two Hearts

Author:Elif Safak

“RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when hungry, rather than their having to adjust too soon to external schedules and unrealistic expectations. First, we have to let the child develop his own rhythm; and then later he can adjust more into adult life.”

Firsts Children Fall Benefits Eating Expectations Adults Following Spending Hungry Peaceful Rhythm Schedules Infant Sleepy Falling Asleep Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Magda Gerber

“Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.”

People Ifs Knows Understanding Sound Natural Perfect Communication Speech Ordinary Difficulty Rhythm Imperfect Accents Ordinary People Comprehending Phonetics Elocution

Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“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.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.”

Dream Reality Law Joy Lying Courses Realizing Our Lives Fate Sick Longing Ancient Nostalgia Rhythm Realms Instant Succession Shattered Joy Of Life

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.”

“Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.”

Mind Mean Body Form Energy Sound Healing Technology Conditions Creating Complexes Ancient Psychological Rhythm Breathing Formulas Mind And Body Mind Body Chanting Drumming Physical Healing

Author:Layne Redmond

“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.”

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

“Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.”

“Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.”

Feels Important Communication Messages Essence Rhythm Stretching Analogies

Author:Charles Kennedy

“I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.”

Writing Used Interesting Moved Including Various Rhythm Prose Sonnet

Author:Shelby Foote

“We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.”

Hard Running Form Shoes Surface Rhythm Pace Steady Artificial Slow Down Unnatural Reacting Terrain Slowing Speeding Speeding Up

Author:Christopher McDougall

“The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.”

Writing Two Sometimes Home Night Next Morning Rhythm Coming Home Every Morning Blank Typical Two Days Cool Things

Author:Patricia Briggs

“Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.”

Whole Order Speak Divine Musical Rhythm Phrases

Book:The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Culture, philosophy, and religion

Source: The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Culture, philosophy, and religion

“I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Character Feelings Found Audience Rhythm Chewing

Author:Rod Steiger

“Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.”

Should Matter Seems Sound Simple Principles Reader Ears Rhythm Prose

Book:Style: The Art of Writing Well

Source: Style: The Art of Writing Well

“Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.”

Ifs Heart Able Found Nature Known Greatness Source Return Solitude Eternal Rhythm Finding Yourself Insignificant Chatter Peace Within

Book:Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.”

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