Rhyme Quotes
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It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.
Harlan Howard
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Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
Nicki Minaj -
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.
John Milton -
In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.
William Butler Yeats -
It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
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 -
Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.
Seamus Heaney
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Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
Jon Bon Jovi -
No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
William Goldman -
Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.
William Butler Yeats -
Tell the truth and make it rhyme...
John Lennon The Beatles -
Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.
William Butler Yeats -
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
William Goldman -
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
Thomas More -
I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.
Anna Journey -
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.
Nick Bantock
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Rhyme and metre are artificial and an external addition to poetry.
F.S. Flint -
Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi -
I hopefully try to find people and projects that my gut instinctively points me towards, and hope that there's some type of rhyme to them later.
Reid Carolin -
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.
Andrew Hoberek