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Sound Quotes by George Orwell
- There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
- In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and…
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
- Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a…
- His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,…
- You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except…
- To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in…
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- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- 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