I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a… — Esther Rolle Copy Share Image
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
A universal sound is about having everybody be able to relate to it whether you're in New York, LA, London or Australia.… — Mario Copy Share Image
As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice,… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the… — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The way it works for me is my sight and sound senses are combined. Every sound I associate with a color and… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? -… — Thales Copy Share Image
I describe me sound as international: reggae, pop, rap, R&B all in one. I think I have my own style. I can't… — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
With someone like Charlie Mingus, there is a counterweight between melody and raucousness. He is still very melodic even though is tearing… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be… — Bun B Copy Share Image
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me.… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot sing karaoke because it's hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
I did my first little kids' musical, 'The Sound of Music,' at 5, in a jungle gym, essentially. I was a made-up… — Beanie Feldstein Copy Share Image
I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not.… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy… — Apollonius of Tyana Copy Share Image
“In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice,… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image