Single Syllable

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or syllable:

    “Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you’re beginning to live for a single aim—for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths—when all you’re really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    “It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)