Quotes About Sound

José Luis Peña, a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and his collaborators have discovered that the sound localization system in a barn owl's brain performs sophisticated mathematical computations to execute this pinpointing of prey.

I hear his call still, echoing down the centuries. It sounded like a warning. It sounded like a death knell. It sounded, most of all, like laughter.

Already midcareer, Ted published Van Gogh, Painter of Sound, which found correlations between Van Gogh's types of brushstroke and the proximity of noisemaking creatures like cicadas, bees, crickets, and woodpeckers—whose microscopic traces had been detected in the paint itself.

The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.

The forest is like a sentient creature drawing breath around me. The moon's brightness has a sound. It rings in the sky. I've had a fever, which has been hard, but it has left my mind clearer than before. There's another way of seeing the world, like looking through the bottom of a glass.

Silence after a roaring motor is a sound of its own.

I heard the telltale sound of scales scraping against metal--a light swoosh, a tongue flickering out to taste the stale and humid air. Whatever it was, my prey was tasting for me.

He says with patented Smirk Number Three." Devon shook his head and made a sound somwhere in the neighborhood of tsk-tsk. "You're getting rusty, Bronwyn. That was clearly Smirk Number Two: sardonic with a side of wit.

For some reason, I don't like the way this sounds, as if a universe could exist in which I wouldn't know Finch.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

For one moment the morning took you far out into vague chill, but your body snatched you back into its cosiness, back to the waiting dogs on the hill top. They could not follow out there, their world was walled, their noses trailed the earth. What a dog cannot hear or smell he distrusts; unless objects are close or move he does not observe them. His nature is to confirm what he sees by his sense of sound or of smell.

Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away, Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay: A quality of loss Affecting our content.

The murmur of a bee

The silence like an ocean rolled, And broke against my ear.

In snow thou comest Thou shalt go with resuming ground The sweet derision of thx crow And Glee's advancing sound

To hear an Oriole sing May be a common thing — Or only a divine. It is not of the Bird Who sings the same, unheard, As unto Crowd — The Fashion of the Ear Attireth that it hear In Dun, or fair — So whether it be Rune, Or whether it be none Is of within. The Tune is in the Tree — The Skeptic — showeth me — No Sir! In Thee!

It sounded like a muffled clanking

These headsets could pick up a spider scratching in Madagascar." "And is there a spider scratching in Madagascar?" "Well … I don't know. They can't really—

Excuse me, Tex, the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits.

Generally doesn't sound very improbable. Doesn't sound very zenzizenzizenzic to one against. Sounds more like even money to me.

En déchiffrant la Berceuse, mes doigts révélaient du velouté, de la rondeur ; le son naissait et mourait, ductile, facile ; rien ne me coûtait.

He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

But when I turn up the volume on the TV no laugh track is playing.