Audible Quotes
82 Audible quotes by 73 unique authors
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When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
— William Wordsworth
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Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
— Alistair Cooke
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
— C.S. Lewis
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Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.
— Zohra Sehgal
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Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and…
— John Daido Loori
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In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night…
— Thomas Gray
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PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words…
— Learned Hand
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
— Dante Alighieri
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
— Alistair Cooke
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If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension.…
— Fuzzy Zoeller
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What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I…
— Alexey Leonov
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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own…
— Nicholson Baker
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I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I…
— Bill Dixon
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Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.…
— Jacques Attali
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It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form…
— Fanny Kemble
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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
— Theodore Dreiser
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
— Peter Ustinov
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Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.
— Quentin Crisp
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She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am…
— Aldous Huxley
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Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of…
— Herbert Marcuse
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He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black…
— Arthur Phillips
Who Wrote These Audible Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 82 Audible Quotes, led by these top contributors: