Knew Quote by Dava Sobel

“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require…

— R. Scott Bakker

“The plain fact was he knew how to do it intuitively, but he could not articulate what it was that he did.”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

“On thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was meat to…

— Charles Frazier

“He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable…

— Elizabeth Bear

“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his aura and…

— Karl Kristian Flores

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the formation of…

— Marcel Proust

“sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.”

— Haruki Murakami

“He spent the afternoon watching the indicator light turn from red to orange to green and thought about how useless it was to be…

— Ryan Boudinot

“Many of us can maybe sometimes imagine sounds, or have some musical ideas. But to have them consistenly building whole works, and to have…

— Christian Tetzlaff

“He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken…

— Rita Leganski