Quotes About Audibility

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Audibility decays according to the inverse square law. Twice the distance, the sound gets four times as quiet. Four times the distance, sixteen times as quiet.

And if I talk too loud, its just that I'm trying to be heard.

Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.

You will not win by being quiet. You will win by being heard.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.

A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.