Sound Quotes - Page 19

• I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...

  Esther Rolle

  America, Long, Different

  "Being Black In America And Being African Aren't Mutually Exclusive". "All Things Considered" with Christabel Nsiah-Buadi, www.npr.org. February 11, 2017.

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• I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds a little shallow, but if I imagine the shadow life, where I didn't get that chance, and all the ways my negative inclinations would have bloomed if I hadn't gotten the attention, but also the creative outlet ... I'm not actually that happy. I have multiplicities. My happiness blooms and it wilts.

  George Saunders

  Creative, Shadow, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My connection to music is so strong. I cling to it. I vibe out to it. I release stress to it. Music is really always close to me. It's really present in my work in terms of how I relate to characters is through rhythm and sound, even in their speech.

  Mahershala Ali

  Strong, Stress, Character

  "New spotlight, new baby for Oscars-bound Mahershala Ali". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 17, 2017.

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• As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are really acoustic writers and so for them the secret revision is sound. Other people may revise in terms of the way a paragraph feels. There's a million ways to do it.

  George Saunders

  Writing, People, Secret

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It sounds morbid, but because my mother knew she was dying, she discussed with us her not being there, and it helped me and my brother deal with her passing that much better.

  Suzy Nakamura

  Mother, Brother, Dying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Black, Desire

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a malnourished nation that part of the founding of the welfare state were public health initiatives. Every little schoolchild got milk. Mrs. Thatcher stopped it. They called her "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher."

  Hilary Mantel

  Powerful, Children, War

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Now 3D is no longer a fad but I don't get all crazy about it and say that everything has got to be in 3D. It is a nice tool, like color or sound or whatever. I was quite intrigued and I learned, 3D opened up a lot of questions about how to use it. I think it is great. It's like if a movie needs to be in black and white then that's how I will shoot it. I see color as just another character or black and white as a character.

  Tim Burton

  Crazy, Nice, Character

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

  Steve Almond

  Sports, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist.

  Stan Lee

  Believe, Character, Love Life

  Source: www.ign.com

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• When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Discovery, Psychology, Answers

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.166, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, Perfect, Ears

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• Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but it's now certainly the case that the postmodern mindset is dominant, particularly in the media. Therefore, when we start speaking in terms of certainties, we sound scary to other people.

  Mark Dever

  Media, Usa, Australia

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world.

  Evan Osnos

  Commitment, Rights, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My favorite decade of cinema would be kind of the '40s, yeah. I like things in the '30s, but you know, the sound recording in the '30s wasn't very good. But for some reason the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.

  Robert Osborne

  People, Personality, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

  Amos Oz

  Sight, Literature, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film is that you can turn the sound off and watch it and have some understanding of what you're seeing.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Communication, Bridges, Understanding

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I approach my work the way an actor approaches their work. The only difference is that I do comedy, and my job is to make things funny. My style makes things sound like they're improvisational and happening right then and there.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Jobs, Differences, Style

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, Rocks

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• It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly authentic place of sound and intention that only I can bring. Everyone has their own expression. I'm still on that quest and I hope to always be.

  Grace Kelly

  Song, Expression, Track

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Luxury, Work Out

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I've always been into music that was meshed together - not necessarily wall of sound stuff but music where you get duelling guitars and weird harmonics by putting things together, and you might not even know what's playing - it could be four or five instruments doing the same thing, and it's this strange concoction.

  Dom Thomas

  Wall, Guitar, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

  Dom Thomas

  Song, Real, Kids

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation.

  Patti Smith

  Drinking, Coffee, Struggle

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it. The vicarious experience is much more accessible. We all recognize the sound of that howling, because we all have a similar howling inside of us, however we heed it or hold it or muzzle it or repress it or live in bondage to it.

  Melissa Febos

  Muzzle, Bondage, Vicarious

  Source: therumpus.net

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