Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God’s people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.

Love sounds like a trumpet mimicking a trombone. That’s one of my hobbies, when I’m not impersonating statues of mimes.

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that’s when you know you did something.

I don’t want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There’s a facility in that kind of writing.

ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lightListen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypesThe sketcher washes with...

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.

The sound of the words as they’re said is always different from the sound they make when they’re heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Most books are surplus to the world’s requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren’t just using up trees.

I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they,...

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

I don’t like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

Nyoka ni mnyama mdogo lakini anayeogopwa hata na majambazi wakubwa. Adui wa dirishani alipogeuka kumwangalia Murphy, alimwangalia pia mwenzake na kucheka bila Murphy kujua kilichofanya wafurahi. Ghafla, kuna kitu kilitokea! Nyoka mkubwa aina ya swila...

Music is organized sound.

He’s a funny one,” said Ida. “Here’s how he sound.” She pursed her lips and, expertly, imitated the red-winged blackbird’s call: not the liquid piping of the wood thrush, which dipped down into the dry...

I don’t believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you’re doing with it.

Happy Birthday!” The smell of cake and the sound of feet under the table. I awake in a body that’s too big. I also dream in motion and sensation. My father’s boat and the snore...

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!…What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Silence is the door to Oran Mor. Close your eyes. Quieten your thoughts. And listen. Listen in particular to the sound of the waves. Let the Great Song sing in you. In an hour I...

If you bulk order enough sound, you get a discount by volume. The guys in the warehouse know me by the codename Helen Keller.

THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALLWhen he is born, a baby’s head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference of his skull is as infinite as the twirlings of the universe. His eyes...

I’m a mash-up of everyone. My influences would be Michael Jackson, Brandy, Aaliyah – those types of people. So if you can imagine them – and with me taking them, and then putting my own...

Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!

It’s refreshing to hear something that’s pop but doesn’t sound like Britney Spears.

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I’ve met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I’ve interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn’t...

I didn’t respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

If we spoke with our ears, and listened through our mouth, then a kiss might be the most romantic sound in the world.

I want to say more, but don’t know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air...

The most disturbing sound in the world comes from the alarm clock at 5:30am

When I say I love the silence, I’m not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I’m silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched but I can’t move.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the ’40s.

The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

Neil’s effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion...

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

I’m identified as a New York actor, I sound like I’m from New York, and I couldn’t be more proud of it.

It’s not enough to hear someone else’s voice or to sing someone else’s song or to play the note that you heard someone else play. I had to tune into my sound and by doing...

If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and...

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

‘The Exorcist’ is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don’t see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after ‘The Birdcage.’ I think people just didn’t know what to do with me.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It’s been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it’s going to up...

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There’s a different focus; there’s a different sound.