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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeche...

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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and L...

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal...

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He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It wa...

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The Russian commands sound like the name of the camp commandant. Shishtvanyanov: a gnashing and splu...

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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the d...

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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...

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Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside...

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The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word fr...

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When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham...

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I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film wa...

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Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a ...

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Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and ha...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in th...

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in t...

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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can...

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Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of so...

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touc...

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Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, bu...

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...

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We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style.  We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task...

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Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...

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I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no ...

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Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do w...

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'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

Lend your ear then to this tutti of steeples; diffuse over the whole the buzz of half a million of h...

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Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and t...

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a sy...

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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...

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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting a...

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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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Anne CarsonAutobiography of Red

Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He wo...

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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.