Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice. — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians;… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment,… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh… — Charlaine Harris 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
For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when… — Jean Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces… — Bryan Beller Copy Share Image
Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like… — Glyn Johns Copy Share Image
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and… — Graeme Murphy Copy Share Image
I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
She was a performance artist calling herself Lady Gaga, who had a European dance-club sound and pop-star aspirations - elements that historically… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Tears were dripping onto my dress, but I wasn't making any sound. There was no sound to express thid kind of pain.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make… — Charles Shyer Copy Share Image
When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound… — Christopher Gorham Copy Share Image
My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself. — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the… — Nikka Costa Copy Share Image
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
... one thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that,… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist.… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
