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Sound Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head…
- Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal…
- I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
- Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And…
- I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.
More Sound Quotes
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- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I like the sound a typewriter makes. — Paul Auster
- I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very… — Jensen Ackles
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. — Abu Bakr
- Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth. — Stephen Baldwin