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Quotes About Sound

With 'Midnight Special,' the sound was used as a narrative construct. The audience is looking in one direction when a sound suddenly erupts from the other direction.
~ Jeff Nichols
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
~ James Herriot
The Milky Way made a blizzard of stars in the narrow gap between the hills. A whip-poor-will called, its shrill sound close to the house.
~ Chris Offutt
Listen to it… The swamp has its own Sound. Its own rhythm.
~ Christine Feehan
Just like the movements in a symphony, the rain sent vibrations through his body, painting the world in a physical map of mountains, valleys and high peaks dropping into deep ravines. The physical structures were all created by sound itself, and the colors were intense and vivid—substance created by sound, by feeling.
~ Christine Feehan
Her ass was marked, but she didn't make a sound. After several minutes, he stopped and picked up the second tawse. "Okay, baby, we're at the main event. What are you being punished for, Seychelle?" "Because my man loves this shit and wants an excuse to use his fun little toys on me.
~ Christine Feehan
Laughter can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound,and also the most sinister and animalistic one.
~ Christopher Hitchens
By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn't do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.
~ Christopher Hitchens
It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.
~ Christopher Moore
Para ser honesto era muito raro ferver, mas gostava do som da expressão fervoroso pagão e creio que seria um nome fantástico para uma banda de rock cristã.
~ Christopher Moore
Era il suono di mille bambini affamati che piangevano, di diecimila vedove che si strappavano i capelli sulle tombe dei mariti, un coro di angeli che intonava l'ultimo lamento nel giorno della morte di dio
~ Christopher Moore
La voce di Jake si perdeva come il suono di un kazoo nella galleria del vento.
~ Christopher Moore
The floor went completely black when Mr. Amos pulled the door shut. I couldn't see it now, but I'd rememorized the exact shape the stain was in. The padlock snapped shut with the loudest click I'd ever heard.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
Est domus in terris, clara quae voce resultat. Ipsa domus resonat, tacitus sed non sonat hospes. Ambo tamen currunt, hospes simul et domus una.
~ Umberto Eco
I had never heard Ellery laugh before, not out loud. I loved the sound, it filled me up. It tinkled like a magic bird.
~ Ursula Dubosarsky
But I thought: That is the sound of war. That sound of a steady, grinding machine made me think of guns; and then I thought of the crazed and half-starved village people against whom the guns were going to be used, people whose rags were already the colour of ashes. This was the anxiety of a moment of wakefulness; I fell asleep again. When
~ V.S. Naipaul
Aures habet, et non audiet.
~ Victor Hugo
He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to.
~ Kwame Alexander
Honk a Bike Horn
~ Kyra Sundance
He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator's heartbeat
~ L.J. Smith
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.
~ Laini Taylor
One beat followed the sound, a single beat of stillness, and then chaos leapt in.
~ Laini Taylor
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
~ lamb charles iii