Mike May
Athlete
"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall."
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts."
Cam Newton
Football Player
"Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers."
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"How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry."
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"You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm."
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"My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether."
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"Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see."
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"The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless."
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"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
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"Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor."
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound."
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"A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality."
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"The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
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"Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior."
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"The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test."
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"Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy"
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"Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. "All right- PLEASE." "NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage."
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"A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself."
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"With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature."
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"I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them."
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"We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born."
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"Listen to the sound of waves within you."
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