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"Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back."
"There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds"
"Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other."
"The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs."
"I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow."
"A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter."
"This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them."
"There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound."
"The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds."
"Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store."
"I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say."
"Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small."
"After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now."
"You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years."
"There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done."
"I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem."
"You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy."
"Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick."
"Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought."
"By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)"
