Quotes with sound-bites

Quotes 121 till 140 of 210.

  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Big Smo Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.
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  • H. Melville Never a sound judgment without charity.
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  • Agnes de Mille No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Robert Bresson One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Jane Austen One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bob Newhart People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • George Orwell Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
    Politics and the English Language (1945)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Adam Mickiewicz Sound as a burrow'd marmot he slept
    On the straw where he'd tumbled fully-dressed that night.
    Pan Tadeusz
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  • Og Mandino Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Bruno Dumont Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Bill Frist Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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