Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch,… — Beck Copy Share Image
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or 'Return of the King.' I think that… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local… — Peter May Copy Share Image
Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You know just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it or you don't like my haircut or… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by… — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If… — Brett Hoebel Copy Share Image
Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The essence of the cinema that I'm interested in is a combination of love, rage, and curiosity. Sometimes it's hard to see… — Pablo Larrain Copy Share Image
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image