Best broken & sound Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse”

Ifs Thinking Sports Sound Records Broken Keys Skills Satisfied Get Better

Author:Kenny Florian

“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”

War Soul Whole Eye Mother Sound Dark Forget Streets Sweet Broken Wet Widows Butchery Wet Eyes

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.”

“First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room.”

Ifs Way Giving Firsts Sound Rooms Broken First Time Make Sense Outlandish

Author:Michael Marshall Smith

“I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.”

Source: The Essential Writings

“The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.”

Giving Firsts May Long Made Lasts Sound Christ Design Broken Safe Long Time Safety Justification Machinery Port Sanctification Docks Soundness Safe And Sound

Author:Agatha Christie

“Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.”

Knows Different Home Sound Term Childhood Broken Our Children Broken Homes

Author:Bucky Sinister

“I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.”

Kind Play Sound Cities Break Style New York Broken Bird Bars Versions Broken Up

Author:Van Morrison

“Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.”

Way Trying Dream Sound Broken Return Roots Tests Currents Bob Sixty Getting Old Dylan Forsake Rockers Broken Dreams Test Of Time

Author:Jay Michaelson

“A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?”

Doe Stills Left Sound Broken Staring Breasts Bent Stethoscope

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.”

Ifs Moments Sound Broken Going Away

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”

Ifs Firsts Pain Sound Morning Sadness Broken Stillness Being Broken

Book:Freedom: A Novel

Source: Freedom: A Novel

“THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.”

Moments Hands Pain Sound Realizing Silence Heard Broken Promise Pure Letting Go Ears Notes Nails Bullets Chords Rip Max Being Broken Chalkboards

Book:Sing You Home: A Novel

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced. I love my burdens.”

“Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.”

People Trying Humans Heart Kind Helping Feelings Sound Voice Differences Strange Broken Losing Vacuums Cleaners Console Human Voice

Book:Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Source: Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.”

Feels Moments Faces Joy Speak Heaven Sound Voice Views Silence Saws Missing Flower Broken Beats Dresses Blue Wave Fallen Brown Arrivals Radiant Lucy Room With A View

Book:A Room With A View: England Literature

Source: A Room With A View: England Literature

“Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.”

Feels Long Body Energy Sound Dark Space Gone Air Broken Mass Notes Guitar Wave Smell Noise Sweat Soar Fragments Heartbeat Liquid Space Between

Book:Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex

Source: Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex

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