Quotes About Sound

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage:

She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.

She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge.

The contagious sound of women's laughter filled the warm, tidy burrow.

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage

The drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Touch fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

Se calla cuando escucho, suena cuando me duermo.

death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows: blows a dark sound that swells the sheets and beds are sailing into a harbor where death is waiting, dressed as an admiral

The ancient rishis discovered these laws of sound alliance between nature and man. Because nature is an objectification of Aum, the Primal Sound or Vibratory Word, man can obtain control over all natural manifestations through the use of certain mantras or chants.

I am the Cosmic Ocean of sound and the little wave of the body vibration in it.

Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.

I had read for the way words sounded, not for the ideas they espoused.

and the bells kept on tolling, tolling as they gathered

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

Poetry reaches to the realm beyond the world of sight and sound to reveal what our senses long to see and hear. It is the language not so much of the sublime, but of the truly real.

hombre de la videocámara al oír el ruido.

There is the sudden sound of pennants stirring on their staffs as the wind comes up.