My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way.… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess,… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
You might be able to get a certain sound, and in the studio you certainly look at things under a microscope a… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it… — Sally Pearson Copy Share Image
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Sounds like to have space sometimes. It's good to give yourself a variety, or you just fatigue your ear. Like if somebody… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you're close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would… — Danny Barker Copy Share Image
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because… — Shannon Hoon Copy Share Image
I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical.… — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the… — Bruno Dumont 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
Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry'… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The time has come when we must take an unyielding stand. We must shore up our spiritual underpinnings, listen to the prophets… — W. Craig Zwick Copy Share Image
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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
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