Quotes About Sound

Vocea viorii este zgomotul pe care-l face, deschizandu-se, poarta paradisului.

Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination.

Her blood-curdling snoring, with its gargling and squawking and its terrifying pauses is like the sound the devil might make if he were alternately relishing and strangling on a pound of human flesh.

They're not really bombs -- they're acoustic provocations.

Thinking of his unsettled dreams, and puzzled by their missing sound track, Jim tugged at his ruffed collar.

Music is at once a science and an art. It is rooted in physics and mathematics, hence it is a science; inspiration makes it an art, unconsciously utilizing the theorems of science. It is founded in physics by the very nature of the matter it works on. Sound is air in motion. The air is formed of constituents which, in us, no doubt, meet with analogous elements that respond to them, sympathize, and magnify them by the power of the mind.

Provammo un senso di disorientamento, la stessa mancanza di sincronia tra suono e luce quando c'è un tuono.

My voice has been likened to the mating call of the caribou.

And us? Just another belch in the darkness. Sound but not word, noise without meaning.

Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to describe what things sound like . 'As she walked up the alley, her polyester workout pants sounded like windshield wipers swishing back and forth.' Cadence, onomatopoeia, the poetry of language are all so important. Learn all that you can about how to bring sound into your work.

And maybe that is where rhythm comes from, I think. Our earliest understanding of rhythm. The sound of our own breath, the beating of our own hearts.

Fear is a rushing sound, like water, in my ears.

If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.

When the process began, when association started an entering procedure—at, for instance, the sound of a Greek or Spanish place name, the taste of raspberries, the sight of candles out of doors—he had taught himself to touch an escape key, rather like that on the computers he sold.

In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.

So still is Love he hears the farthest sound: The footfall of the seasons in their round, The soft etheric swish of the rushing spheres, The murmur of the mute things underground.

Thy love is like deep waters all around-- Warm pulsing waters, in whose brooding sound The lone wail of my heart is lulled with dreams, And the far clamour of the world is drowned.

What does a horny frog say? "Rub-it.

was quiet but for the sound of a tractor laboring at the park's edge, cleaning leaves amid a stand of bare oak trees.

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.

Furi ika ya! Kawaza tobikomu Mizo no oto

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.