OCCASIONAL adj. Afflicting us ordsprog

en OCCASIONAL, adj. Afflicting us with greater or less frequency. That, however, is not the sense in which the word is used in the phrase
"occasional verses," which are verses written for an "occasion," such as an anniversary, a celebration or other event. True, they afflict us a little worse than other sorts of verse, but their name has no reference to irregular recurrence.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I've never written with the intention of writing hits. I guess I'm a commercial writer, though. My songs do tend to come out two verses, bridge, guitar solo, last verse, and tag. When I've finished a piece I do have my opinion about whether it will sell, of course, but I'm not always right.

en LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:

The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"

It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.
  Ambrose Bierce

en RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually
(and wickedly) spelled "rhyme."
  Ambrose Bierce

en By the time they were juniors and seniors, they knew exactly what they were going to do before they did it. And that helps. You need to have kids that know each other and that do an occasional back-door [cut] on their own, do an occasional pick out of the offense on their own.

en Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity
  George Santayana

en When I finished the book I thought this actually does have echoes for the modern world in all sorts of places, ... The Satanic Verses.
  Salman Rushdie

en Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.

en All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
  William Jennings Bryan

en I was so excited that I stopped at a pay phone to call the other guys at their work. By the end of the day I had written the other verses, one about sex and one about drugs. I remember that I had a hell of a time singing it and getting the spelling of vitamins right!

en Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pe𝗑y. Your turn will come.
  Og Mandino

en It was an important day for us because we were able to overcome our individuality and begin to focus clearly on a unified vision. We spent the day talking about the difference between an occasional winner and a champion. An occasional winner looks to success to validate the performance, but a champion looks to the performance as a validation of success.

en If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
  Robertson Davies

en On the surface, an occasional made-for-TV poker event could possibly bring a lot of positive exposure to downtown Las Vegas.

en The nice thing is, because the movie has been a success, there's the occasional party, the occasional premiere, opening. I see a lot of Kevin and Annette. Annette is pregnant so I haven't seen her that much, but Kevin is a one-man publicity machine for this movie. He's unbelievable -- I mean, how does he have the energy? Annette can't really fly, and they just ask her about (her husband) Warren (Beatty) the entire time, but Kevin has been on the campaign trail.


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