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Quotes About Sound

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
~ James Russell Lowell
the quality of onset determines the quality of the ensuing phonation.
~ James Stark
He'd always, all of his life, loved the sound of breaking water. Nothing that had happened had changed that. The crawling of water over sand, the hush of a word no … no … no … not even that had changed his love of the power of the sea.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
She is a very conscientious person," said Miss Lydgate, "but she has rather an unfortunate knack of making any subject sound dull. It's a great pity, because she is exceptionally sound and dependable. However, that doesn't greatly matter in her present appointment; she holds a librarianship somewhere—Miss
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Then making the noise usually written "Tut-tut," he
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
As he spoke, the sound of a church clock, muffled by the snow, came borne upon the wind; it chimed the first quarter. 'Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
~ Dorothy Parker
They plunged through heavy walls of sound, mountains of archaic thought, valleys of mood music, bad shoe sessions and footling bats and suddenly heard a girl's voice.
~ Douglas Adams
At some distance down the corridor it seemed suddenly as if somebody started to beat on a bass drum. He listened to it for a few seconds and realized that it was just his heart beating. He listened for a few seconds more and realized that it wasn't his heart beating, it was somebody down the corridor beating on a bass drum.
~ Douglas Adams
He gasped in terror at what sounded like a man trying to gargle while fighting off a pack of wolves.
~ Douglas Adams
Man pat?k beigu termi?i. Man it ?paši pat?ks svelpjoš? ska?a, ko tie rada lidojot gar?m.
~ Douglas Adams
In my ears i hear a noise, and this noise is the sound of the color of the sun.
~ Douglas Coupland
Discharge, Shinjuku Thief, and Fleshcrawl before finally selecting Lust-mord. The dislocated, eldritch sounds of "Heresy, Part I
~ Douglas Preston
The phrase, not dissimilar in sound from the mantra, got tangled up with his meditating, preventing him from achieving either peace
~ Douglas Preston
She waited, motionless in the dim light. There was no sound but the faint susurrus of wind.
~ Douglas Preston
And as Coldmoon closed the door behind him, he could still hear the faint sound of Pendergast's laughter—dulcet, melodious, yet infinitely sad—as he maintained his sanity by skipping from one tiny sliver of time to another, between the beat of a hummingbird's wings.
~ Douglas Preston
Well, you can't go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Crosicans or the Mafia," said the Colonel. "Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system
~ Agatha Christie
The rain was pouring down again. The wind came in fitful gusts. The depressing sound of the pattering rain nearly drove them mad. By
~ Agatha Christie
El ansia de matar estaba en su corazón. Se deslizó por sus dedos y murió en ondas sonoras.
~ Agatha Christie
Memories Before and After the Sound of Music An Autobiography
~ Agathe von Trapp
I loved the sound of the snow. It was calm and echoey at the same time, and the world felt a safer place being insulated by it. My
~ Alan Cumming
Dutt made a hissing sound. 'No doubt
~ Alan Hunter
Christmas music," said Nick, "or instruments of torture?
~ Alan Russell
Anna's breath was short, her mouth dry. She managed to say, "You make it all sound so awful." Elizabeth shook her head with regret. "I just gave you the best-case scenario.
~ Alan Russell