Quotes About Sound

Thus, instead of gaining only an internal silence, in the common sense of the word, he gains also that strange dynamic silence which preceded creation, and from which all things come—the silence of the heart of God. This silence is the root of sound, and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world. This is the dynamic silence of creation, the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place- new worlds forever fashioning.

Quando procuramos no infinitamente grande um ponto infinitamente pequeno, uma fonte de luz por mais afastada que seja, quando esperamos a chegada de um som vindo do fundo do universo há apenas uma coisa de que temos a certeza absoluta: a nossa vontade de descobrir.

Les mots qui ont un son noble contiennent toujours de belles images.

A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain

Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.

Unfast'ns: on a sudden op'n flie With impetuous recoile and jarring sound Th' infernal dores, and on thir hinges great Harsh Thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She op'nd, but to shut Excel'd her power; the Gates wide op'n

The significance of this special case is obvious and needs no explanation. It is natural to conjecture that once we have a sound theory for this case, the remaining problems of justice will prove more tractable in the light of it.

A digital clock punched red electronic minutes into the silence.

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Shay heard the yellow tennis balls on the walker's front legs swishing.

On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of restrained grieving.

In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent.

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The whisky muttered in his ears.

Good, sound research projects begin with straightforward, uncomplicated thoughts that are easy to read and understand.

I hated the Beatles when they first came out because they were so goddamn cheery. I didn't listen to popular music from 1964 until 1976, when I first heard the Sex Pistols. Finally a new antihippie sound that could piss off every musical legend that came first.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.