Sound Quotes — Page 30

Ice T

Rapper, Actor

“Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.”

Sound Hip Hop Hips

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Malcolm Gladwell

Journalist, Author

“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.”

Believe Sound Gone Away

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Fran Lebowitz

Author, Essayist

“Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.”

Sound Charming

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Nhat Hanh

Zen Master, Author

“What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.”

Animal Nature

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Nas

Rapper, Songwriter

“I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.”

Want Voice Sound

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Kate Chopin

Author

“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.”

Voice Sound Wine

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“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.”

Would Be Sound Example

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Marcus Aurelius

Philosopher, Emperor

“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.”

Men Able Sound

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Keith Emerson

Musician

“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.”

Kind Sound Unhappy

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“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.”

Sound Truth Half

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“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.”

Sound Spring Listening

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Haruki Murakami

Writer

“If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”

Reality Fall Sound

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