Jackson-burnett Quote by Jackson Burnett

“He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating…

— Anne Tyler

“The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen…

— Charles Dickens

“He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father’s face, which received those words as a…

— John Williams

“Only slowly, after long watching, did he begin to distinguish the small signs that made them trackable: the ball of gristle in the corner…

— David Malouf

“And by this experience his knowledge was reduced to diffidence, so that when asked how sounds were created he used to answer tolerantly that…

— Dava Sobel

“Did he know she could barely think, let alone speak, for awareness of proximity of his fingers? Of course he knew. He was a…

— Anne Gracie

“He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms and bent,…

— Nicole Mones

“Robert pointed at Lacey and then made the sign for “hearing,” but instead of making it at his mouth, he made it at his…

— Mary Carter

“when we identify with what another has said or written, we use those words as an articulation of our own inner voices, not only…

— Cheryl Strayed

“So deeply moved, he pulled the cassette from the machine, flipped it back over to the beginning, fitted it back into its snug carriage…

— Paul Harding

“We may not be aware of the exact significance of each gesture but the overall impression is usually quite accurate.”

— Glen Wilson