Quotes About Sound

The sound-producing organs of their terrestrial ancestors, their larynxes, evolved to make louder and more complex sounds. For instance, dolphins have two nasal passages and two sets of sound-producing organs and can simultaneously produce two different sounds. The

The terrestrial heritage of the marine mammals is evident in their air breathing and its consequences for metabolic rates, size, and sound production. There is one other characteristic of the marine mammals and especially the cetaceans that is remarkable among marine creatures, but is less obviously tied to air breathing: their brains.

I cracked one over a row a trailers that bordered the outfield fence- hit it so hard that Ted Williams came running out from the clubhouse wanting to know who it was that could a bat sound that way when it struck a baseball.

Wo es hinkam, wuchs aus der Nacht ein kleinstes Geräusch. Knirschte hell eine Diele, löste sich ein Nagel, bog sich ein altes Möbel. Knarrte es in den verquollenen Läden oder klirrte seltsam zwischen den Gläsern – Alles schlief in dem grossen Hause am Rhein. Aber irgend etwas schlurfte langsam herum –

But everything owes its existence solely and completely to sound. Sound is a factor which holds it together. Sound is the basis of form and shape. In the beginning was the word and the word was God. We are told this is how the world began and how creation took shape.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

What sound was that? I turn away, into the shaking room. What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this maze of light it leaves us in? What is this stance we take, To turn away and then turn back? What did we hear? It was the breath we took when we first met. Listen. It is here.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.

He who knows the secret of sound, knows the mystery of the whole universe

The soul apart from the body and mind is a sound, a note, a tone, which is called in Sanskrit Svara.

The sound of water is deep, its form is serpent-like, its color green, and it is best heard in the roaring of the sea. The sound of fire is high pitched, its form is curled, and its color is red. It is heard in the falling of the thunderbolt and in a volcanic eruption. The sound of air is wavering, its form zigzag, and its color blue. Its voice is heard in storms, when the wind blows, and in the whisper of the morning breeze.

The foetus, expert at attachment, didn't dream that cramped canal would open into sound and light and love - it clung. It didn't care. The future looked like death to it, from there.

Orion's butt used to be a tuba," said Rigel, "and that's why it makes those noises.

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.

Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

We're building a technology that takes the magic of Kodak, mixes moving images and sound, and adds a space for commentary and an opportunity to spread that creativity everywhere. But we're building the law to close down that technology. (p. 47)

Indeed, tone or voice is what you get when, larynxlike, you breathe through structure.

Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sense of "to consider something, to deliberate"—is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.

Sig mig nu hr. Fern, hvorfor slog De på den gong-gong? - Jeg har altid brændt efter at knalde løs på sådan en gong-gong! - Altid … - Nå ja, siden jeg så den. Vi snakker en tid om gong-gonger. Om eventuelle personlige gong-gonger skulle dukke op og meddele sig tværs over afgrunden. - Gong-gonger siger mig intet! siger jeg. - Jeg kan blot godt lide at slå på dem!

I remember he was asking me for advice and I was giving it to him. He's always done the exact opposite of what I've said, which I think is fundamentally sound.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

Bakbakbakbakbakbak!

Suddenly a sound like a water-pipe with air in it came from Mrs Gunn and Carolus realized that she was giggling.