Echoes Quotes - Page 24

• Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reflection, Men, Light

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.32, Fig

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• The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

  Ronnie Wood

  Hip Hop, Soul, Hips

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• We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.

  Ken Burns

  Wise, Past, People

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• There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

  Pythagoras

  Action, Eternity

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• It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Sound, Pace

  Charles Dickens (1851). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. The old curiosity shop and other tales”

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• The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like I don't want my son to hear the rock. I'm going to listen to it only in my private chambers. He'll hear echoes of it and say: "What was that you were listening to papa?" And I'll say: "Nothing son, you're not ready."

  Jack Black

  Kids, Son, Rocks

  "Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny - Jack Black/Kyle Gass Interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

  Bob Dylan

  Museums, Voice, Trials

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wise, Thinking, Choices

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• I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub's previous work and builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and frightening as anything he has written, but it's also an intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.

  Dan Chaon

  Teenager, Reading, Moving

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• Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Song, Rivers, Barley

  'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 1

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Blow

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Blow, Purple

  1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

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• Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Ignorant, Mind, Degrees

  "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston". As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 256-259, 1922.

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• lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Art, Numbers, Perfection

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.316

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• For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Wall, Past

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• Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Glowing, Voice, Rivers

  Czeslaw Milosz, “An Hour”

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• I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Kings, Parent, Downtown

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". Interview with MovieWeb, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

  James Frey

  Past, Would Be, Absurd

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Stories, Belief

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Voice, Space, People

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• I'd like the memory of me
  to be a happy one.
  I'd like to leave an afterglow
  of smiles when life is done.
  I'd like to leave an echo
  whispering softly down the ways,
  Of happy times and laughing times
  and bright and sunny days.
  I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
  to dry before the sun
  of happy memories
  that I leave when life is done.

  Helen Lowrie Marshall

  Memories, Grieving, Happy Times

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• We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Expression, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, People, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror of another's story, we can discover our tragedy and our comedy-and therefore our very human-ness, the ambiguity and incongruity, that lie at the core of the human condition.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Lying, Mirrors, Essence

  Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.63, Bantam

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• Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sound, Perfume, Colour

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Correspondances'.

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