Quotes
Quotes about Sound
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
And sounding in advance its victory,
My song jets forth so clear, so proud, so peremptory,
That the horizon, seized with a rosy trembling,
Obeys me.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
If the trumpet give an uncertain sound.
The reality of literature, as opposed to its appearance in written of printed records, is the organization of speech sounds, and this makes literature a temporal art, a twin of music.
Music deals in sound without clear referents. Music is multiguous,since it is capable of many interpretations. Music, one might say, is Hopkinsian.
It is because literature has no power to imitate the sound of music that it is led to mockery of its sister art
We are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood, and metal that produced civilisation
Immediate danger. Let danger always be immediate. It is a sound thesis. Let us defend ourselves before we are attacked
A word is just a pen mark, a babble of sound
If there is to be an English poesy worthy the name then it must be formed of true sounds, the throat all open, and not of mumblings in chambers or the impostures of the eye. It is the ear that is poesy's true organ
I've a sense of responsibility to literature, pretentious as that must sound
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.
The Goat and the Goatherd A goatherd had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons. At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master. The Goat replied, Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
