Sound Quotes - 4
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said 'Mate!' in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
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More Sound Quotes
An old pond A frog jumps in The sound of water
Matsuo Basho— c.1689 Quoted in Hugh Cortazzi The Japanese Achievement (1990).
Just as a stone flung into the water becomes the centre and cause of many circles, and as sound diffuses itself in circles in the air; so any object, placed in the luminous atmosphere, diffuses itself in circles, and fills the surrounding air with infinite images of itself.
— Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).
Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
Plato— Epistulae, 8. 354e (translated by R G Bury,1925).
All quiet along the Potomac to-night,No sound save the rush of the river,While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead—The picket ’s off duty forever.
ethel lynn beers— "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" (first published in Harper's Weekly on November 30, 1861 under the title The Picket Guard).
For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.
jim butcher— Character: Harry Dresden
To-day unbind the captive,So only are ye unbound;Lift up a people from the dust,Trump of their rescue, sound!
ralph waldo emerson— Boston Hymn, st. 17
But what I mean is not as odd as it might sound - and is by no means intended as the last word on the subject, only the first.
mark kingwell— Chapter 2, Rights And Duties, p. 68
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
charles de lint— Goninan in Part One: The Hidden People, "Border Spirit" p. 336
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
b. w. powe— Letter To Those In power, p. 92
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.
girolamo savonarola— Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 481
The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.
Henry David Thoreau— December 27, 1857
[Creationists] make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov— Often attributed as remarks to the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) (1980)
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
Friedrich Engels— Anti-Dühring (1878)
I’m especially interested in the music of John Cage.. ..I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
jasper johns— John Adds Plaster Casts To Focus Target Paintings, Donald Key, Milwaukee Journal, 19 June 1960, pt. 5, p. 6
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
h. l. mencken— Ch. 3 (Prejudices, Third Series (1922))
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
Gertrude Stein— Brewsie and Willie (1946), Ch. 7
“They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?” Colin whispered behind his order of service. “It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.”
connie willis— Chapter 14 (p. 219)
If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence . On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force . Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness .
— Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in "The Nobel Evening Address" in The Dalai Lama : A Policy of Kindness (1990), p. 115
I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear Thy monotone deep and clear, Like a sound amid sounds most fine."
— Dinah Craik, A Rhyme About Birds.
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45, and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.
— John Maynard Keynes, in Collected Works, vol. XII on Hayek's Prices and Production (1931); Hayek provided historical background up to page 45, after that came his theoretical model.
So great was her sorrow, as the Music unfolded, that her song turned to lamentation long before its end, and the sound of mourning was woven into the themes of the World before it began. But she does not weep for herself; and those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope.
j. r. r. tolkien— About Nienna, a goddess of sorrow, in The Silmarillion (published 1977).
I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will, To take the indispos'd and sickly fit For the sound man.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 110.
Despite our attempts to imbue them with some flavor, any flavor aphorisms all turn out so...generic; they all sound as if they were delivered by the same disenfranchised, bad-tempered minor deity.
— Don Paterson, Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work, and Death. (2008)
"For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance . The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it -- even of my own music -- with the same nuances forever."
— Aaron Copland, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music. ISBN 0028645812.
Whenever, in any country, the proprietor, generally speaking, ceases to be the improver, political economy has nothing to say in defense of landed property, as there established. In no sound theory of private property was it ever contemplated that the proprietor of land should be merely a sinecurist quartered on it.
— John Stuart Mill, "The Principles of Political Economy" Vol.1
I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 4.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
— George Bernard Shaw
Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by [wit], it casts a brighter beam ; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
— Young Bevil, in Night Thoughts, quoted in James Plumptre Four discourses on subjects relating to the amusement of the stage: preached, Printed by F. Hodson, for F. C. and J. Rivington; sold by J. Hatchard, London, 1809, p.198
sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free.
thomas moore— Sacred Songs, Sound the Loud Timbrel, st. 1.
sound is God.
ravi shankar— Archived interview footage in George Harrison: Living in the Material World (1971)
