Quotes on Sound

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.