Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It’s wonderful, it’s expressive. It’s a way of using a part of my instrument that I’m comfortable and familiar with. The voice… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing.… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain,… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
The love I have for our wildlife is so great, it fills my world. After Black Saturday I saw a world that… — Stella Reid Copy Share Image
We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was… — Zayn Malik Copy Share Image
We had a simple 8-track studio set up in the record store where I worked. And just staying after work and experimenting,… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious,… — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra… — Leon Theremin Copy Share Image
Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When it comes to a specific sound, I don't feel like there's something I need to worry about. I'd much rather do… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
It doesn't sound rational for a Klansman to sit down to dinner with a black man. What you're overlooking is, to be… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
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