Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get… — Teddy Wilson Copy Share Image
It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Sid [the character from 'Ice Age'] is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches.… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When you're a father you censor yourself. You get just as angry with a child but you don't want to say, "What… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend,… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
There are problems in Canada. There is a certain inconsistency in the acting. I don't mean to sound chauvinistic, but we do… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
I don’t want to sound like I’m on dope, but that hour is a high; it’s as good as you can feel.… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the… — George Will Copy Share Image
A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound… — Michael Franks Copy Share Image
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
We want our audience to enjoy themselves, we want every gig to feel like an event - of course there are musical… — James Righton Copy Share Image
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I'm going to sound like an egomaniac, but I'm proud of so many things. I feel proud of my book, 'I'm Just… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
There were a few things going on then away from football, my nan and grandad passed away quite close together and, this… — Danny Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Quincy said, 'What're you doing?' I said, 'I'm trying to smooth that gruff out of my voice. I'm trying to smooth it… — James Ingram Copy Share Image
We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing… — Johnny Christ Copy Share Image
I always like to do sound design, and in movies, you have more leeway with that, but I don't really notice that… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image