Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements -… — Andrew Lau Copy Share Image
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean… — Brendan Dooling Copy Share Image
Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn.… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene… — Andrew Wight Copy Share Image
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl… — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
I may catch some flack for this, but the Jersey style I feel is just very different from New York. When I… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Albums tend to dictate what they need. Every time I have made an album it sort of feels like it is decided… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image