I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give… — Luke Grimes Copy Share Image
I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has… — Ty Simpkins Copy Share Image
This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds… — Lukas Haas Copy Share Image
There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers,… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The first album I ever bought was Santana's 'Abraxas.' Obviously, I was a huge fan of Carlos because he had the unique… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you.… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or… — Kellin Quinn Copy Share Image
“If we would think-to-speak at an adaptive, and comprehensible ear-speed of human sound, we might vastly hear so much more, than the… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination…Of what use are speech sounds and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Moreover, if a song is a hit, film makers come to us with requests to score similar tracks. In the process, commercial… — Arjun Janya Copy Share Image
I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
