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Quotes About Sound

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
~ Xenophon
but the banging was fascist—a sound conveying force and authority—and I knew I would have to answer.
~ Xiaolu Guo
During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and streetlamp colours.
~ Yūko Tsushima
Y, finalmente, me llegaba un sonido desde el fondo, como el ruido de un cristal roto. No, algo más bello y agudo. Para mí, era el sonido de los huesos humanos al quebrarse. Y, una vez que recibía ese eco, por fin me quedaba tranquila.
~ Yūko Tsushima
I thought I could hear the sound of my memory burning that night.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The sound of time flowing between us became the sound of the water trickling quietly from the faucet until dawn.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The sound of the rain seemed louder in the study, as if the sky were actually lower there.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
It must feel much like a typewriter key falling back into place after rising for a moment to strike the page.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I couldn't possibly say," he said. "If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The world is a silence broken by the barking of a stray dog.
~ Yasmina Khadra
There was a sliding, sloshing sound, and then the air seemed to shatter from the sound of a roar so loud, so overpowering it rattled teeth and echoed through the swamp. A huge shadow rose from the water directly in front of them.
~ David Niall Wilson
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.
~ David Nicholls
tinnitus of mirth
~ David Nicholls
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
~ David Ogden Stiers
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
~ David S. Brody
vowel" coming via medieval French from the Latin adjective vocalis, "using the voice.
~ David Sacks
Throughout the process, the scanner emits a loud clanging sound, like that of a metal staff striking the floor repeatedly. It corresponds to the movements of the electronic magnet that quickly turns on and off to induce variations in the magnetic field in the brain.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
When I hear that rain makes a sound, I will ask: does the sunshine make a noise?
~ David W. Mack
How did it sound?" asked Tom. "Awful! But it didn't matter how it sounded!" said Robin. "It was how it felt!
~ David Walliams
BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG!
~ David Walliams
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK.
~ David Walliams
Alfred, will you help us?" Before the boy could answer, he heard the sound of bootsteps approaching. STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! "Guards!" he hissed. "Go! Go! Go!" implored Mother, so he jumped down from the bucket, and leaped on to a pile of hay. THUD! There he pretended to be asleep. Alfred even did his
~ David Walliams
Granny's bum squeaking again
~ David Walliams