Top 1200 Sight And Sound Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

It's inspiring to see Black Flag looking like Vietnamese farmers with big beards and those kind of Vietnamese farming hats showing up at a Mohawk-mania club in England and being spat at because they don't sound or look like Exploited; they sound more like Black Sabbath than Black Flag. I love that.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end in sight.

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.

Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

When the kirtan is harmonious with so many people, it’s a tumultuous beautiful sound. We can’t hear just one voice during the chorus; or rather we do hear one voice. But that one voice is actually the sound of everyone’s voice in harmony. That’s our offering to God. And why is it so pleasing to the Lord? Because we are all cooperating for a higher purpose. We are all united for the pleasure of the center, for the pleasure of Krishna, in spite of all our differences.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

I met Ant through a mutual friend and it was basically love at first sight.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players.

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

At 22 years old, I tattooed 'family' on my wrist to not lose sight of my true goal.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Mobs in the street tearing down Ulysses S. Grant statues is a really chilling sight.

We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.

I don't feel like I sound like anybody from Houston. I don't really feel like I have that Houston flow, that Houston sound. I feel like it's a mixture of all the things I've listened to growing up, or even my mom, in a way. I feel like I have my own style.

The Globe will become an automatic sight like the Tower of London and St. Paul's.

You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

When you're a producer on top of that, just havin' a beat that's hot is not enough. Now you know your sound, 'cause you've been workin' on your sound for so long, and now you're extra picky. You might do a beat that's ill, that the average rapper would pay big money to get on, but you don't wanna do it because you're like, "Ehhh... it's not what I'm looking for, it's not what I'm goin' for." So you're extra picky.

After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity.

A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

You realize how hard it is to get there, but don't lose sight that the goal is to win a championship.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.