Sound Quotes - Page 33

• Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Sleep, Translations

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• It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moon, Piano, Yellow

  "Sourcery (Discworld, Book 5)". Book by Terry Pratchett, May 26, 1988.

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• Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

  Markus Zusak

  Hammers, Earth, Hacking

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.263, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Stupid, Silly

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

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• And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Night, Silence, Lamps

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.290, Open Road Media

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• Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

  Terry McMillan

  Book, People, Worry

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• You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Clouds, Color

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• The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

  Sean Covey

  Intelligent, Years, Experts

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Morning, Mean

  "Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Ch. XXII: The Letter, 1853.

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• When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Doors, Sky, Clouds

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.189, University of Illinois Press

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• Zia turned toward us, her expression grim. “I will show you to your quarters. In the morning, your testing begins. We will see what magic you know, and how you know it.” I wasn’t sure what she meant by that, but I exchanged an uneasy look with Sadie. “Sounds fun,” Sadie ventured. “And it we fail this test?” Zia regarded her coldly. “This is not the sort of test you fail, Sadie Kane. You pass or you die.

  Rick Riordan

  Morning, Fun, Expression

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• echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

  Janet Fitch

  Echoes, Nowhere To Go

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. “And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Names, Listening

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• In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Night, Men

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• That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Real, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

  David Klass

  Play, Musical, Giants

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

  Patricia Briggs

  Voice, Rabbits, Use

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.95, Penguin

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• Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Mean, Thinking

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• But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.

  Jack London

  Summer, Running, Book

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again.

  Anais Nin

  Memories, Men, Orange

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• Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.

  Wallace Stegner

  Lying, Believe, Fate

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.50, Modern Library

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• Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

  Laura Esquivel

  Light, Oxygen, Example

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• I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

  Kate Morton

  Real, Blood, Names

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.'' Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.

  Richard Siken

  Stars, Fall, Believe

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• The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

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