"To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound."
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"There is wealth within the sound of your voice."
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"Success is happiness. People say, "Oh that sounds corny." No matter how rich you are you can only sit your ass in one seat at a time. You have to be comfortable in that seat."
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"My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life."
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"I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound."
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"NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound."
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"Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced."
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"I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent."
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"Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets."
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"I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat."
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"I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away."
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"She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom."
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"Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds."
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"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."
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"What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying."
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"If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this."
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"If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!"
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"At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad."
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"It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound."
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"Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence."
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