Sounds Quotes

2120 Sounds quotes by 1659 unique authors

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs,… — John Edgar Wideman
Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds… — Gene Stratton-Porter
Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is… — T.H. White
I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving. — Chase Utley
Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college. — Treat Williams
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence. — Eckhart Tolle
I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When… — Ike Turner
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds… — David Eddings
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. — Jonathan Dimbleby
It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy. — Unknown Author
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and… — William Shakespeare
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses. — Philip Massinger
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it… — William Butler Yeats
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes… — Henry David Thoreau
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds. — Henry David Thoreau
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in… — Robert Frost
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson
Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give… — James Adams
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to… — John Crowe Ransom
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from… — Gelsey Kirkland
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making… — Unknown Author
Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise. — Jack Handey
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises… — Thomas A. Edison

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