(1417 quotes found)
“It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach- bloom complexion”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils, The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted: - Mark the m”
William Shakespeare
“Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”
Count Basie
“The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“Listen to the sound of silence”
Paul Simon
“You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.”
Johnny Rotten
“The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family”
Douglas Jerrold
“To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.”
William Booth
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton
