Quotes About Sound

Our hearing anchors us in the world; it tells us what's happening behind us, above us, in the dark, and before we're born. Sound pumps me up, calms me down, and transforms my moods in just a few seconds.

When we hear our voice coming from somewhere else, it sounds higher and thinner, which is why so many people dislike hearing recordings of themselves.

the clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass kettle rolling downstairs

de sa main gauche, tout en aspergeant de la droite, il poussa vigoureusement une large pelletée ; et le bois du cercueil, heurté par les cailloux, fit ce bruit formidable qui nous semble être le retentissement de l'éternité.

Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air, is simply the result of the strange properties of a little membrane. If that membrane did not exist, sound would not exist either, since in itself it is merely vibration. Would we be able to detect music without the ear? Of course not. Well, we are surrounded by things whose existence we never suspect, because we lack the organs that would reveal them to us. [ Was He Mad? ]

I told myself, "Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die.

Sounds—possibly musical—heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.

He was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become and empty sound.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound - the verminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats.

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound-and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

One sense that does do better underwater is sound. It travels about four times faster than in air. More

Like most people who actually live by a landlocked sound, bereft of hope of happiness, he had a particular aversion to any doctrines which left people without hope of happiness and told them that they lived by a landlocked sound.

He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound. This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.

Tisina je, a tisina je glasan zvuk.

Pop, pop, sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood.

The Smith and Wesson was stainless steel, as opposed to black. Easy to see in the dark. I could also hear him pull back the hammer. You do that on a revolver, not a semiautomatic." "And the Beretta?" "I can't be sure of the exact make, but it had a floating barrel in the style of Beretta." "As

The dog was still whimpering. But now Goldberg thought that maybe he heard another sound too, another whimpering maybe, or something worse, underneath the first—a terrible, pain-stricken noise so nonhuman that paradoxically it could only come from another human being. "Deputy Chief Goldberg?" He swallowed and dived in. "There's this lawyer named Harry Sutton.…

Dimonte turned the ignition key. The sound was loud. He hit the gas a bit, let the engine do the rev thing for a while. The car had been jacked up like a race car. The sound was, like, totally rad, man. No women were in the nearby vicinity to hear this human mating call or they would surely be disrobing by now. Dimonte finally shifted into gear.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.