S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?”
“Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?Uriel's smile blossomed again. You've got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.”
Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.”
Source: The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works
“Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.”
Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy
“Sound and light are two different things,
But it's more than just that, isn't it?”
“Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.”
“Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.”
“Sound bathing is soul cleansing.”
“Sound body, serene mind, smiling face and sensible society is enough to live a satisfying social life.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.”
Source: The Promised Land
“Sound can transport you; beyond that, it can transform you.”
“Sound character, integrity, purity, high ethical and moral standards are foundations of effectiveness in leadership.”
“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”
“Sound comes out of a life experience.”
“Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.”
“Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.”
“Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the melody, instrument choice, minor or major key, time signature, etc., each song could elicit an entirely different response.”
“Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.”
“Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215”
Source: Intimacy and Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence
“Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.”
“Sound doctrine delivers a soul that has erred in the spirit.”
“Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.”
“Sound doctrine is sound politics.”
“Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.”
“Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.”
“Sound filled the room, a crystal melody that could lift any human heart and turn away any devil.
It was "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake.”
Source: John Dies at the End
“Sound has no parents.”
“Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.”
“Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.”
“Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.”
“Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry”
“Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.”
“Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.”
“Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.”
“Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.”
“Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.”
“sound is not a means and music the end; music a value term applied to recognized patterns of sound. What you call sound is simply music you don't like.”
Source: Mary and the Giant
“Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body”
“Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.”
“Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.”
“Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to describe what things sound like. 'As she walked up the alley, her polyester workout pants sounded like windshield wipers swishing back and forth.' Cadence, onomatopoeia, the poetry of language are all so important. Learn all that you can about how to bring sound into your work.”
“Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.”
“Sound is the first thing that we tune into.”
“Sound is the invisible force that shapes perception. Because it is intangible, we underestimate its power, and yet it penetrates our subconscious more than anything visual.”
“Sound is the secret. The great Qabbalists taught that a prayer sung is one thousand times more efficacious than a prayer simply recited. This is because a human being instantaneously goes into a state of trance when he or she begins singing, or someone starts to sing at them.”
Source: 666: Connection with Crowley
“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”
“Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.”
“Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.”
“Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.”