Quotes by category:Sound

It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.

space sound hands

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

everyday sound years

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

adults technology sound

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm. by Nelly Mazloum

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

silence dance sound

If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

example would-be sound

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult t... by Neville Marriner

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Neville Marriner

manipulation singers sound

A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do

healing sound hands

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Ear... by Nhat Hanh

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

nature sound animal

I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.

Nicholas Thorburn

sound trying thinking

It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!

crowds thrill sound

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

Nicholson Baker

signatures training sound

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

birth sound mean

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

creating air sound

Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have ne... by Nick Carter

Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.

aces sound boys

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

sound doe ordinary

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

sound drama people

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.

cheesy comedy sound

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

records artist sound

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

sound mind song

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

glasses lonely sound