“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.” FeelsYearsDifferentEndsPlayActorsBitsSoundFiveFourSickSillyMusclesFive YearsDrainedCobwebs Author:Matthew Macfadyen
“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.” RealEndsSoundRecordsMachinesConsumersFactoriesTapeMechanicFidelityReal EducationHigh Fidelity Author:Alan Parsons
“The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.” EndsSoundHoursStudiosSpeakersFrustrating Author:Mike Love
“To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.” EndsSoundBreakRecordsEventsMereExtremesMissionsAccomplishedBarriersRecords Breaking Author:Felix Baumgartner
“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.” WayLittlesEndsRunningNextSoundSpaceWhiteSilenceWrittenSpeechWaveBoundariesSilence IsDictionaryOne WordEntrySpace BetweenWritten WordSpoken WordWhite SpaceSound Waves Book:The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.” WorldMayDoeEndsStoriesGuySoundWalksFictionScience FictionBoardsEnd Of The WorldUp And DownSandwichesFiction Stories Author:Lembit Opik
“Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.” YearsTwoEndsSoundStreetsBandAlbumsFormulasSeemingSignaturesDead EndsRamones Author:Dave Grohl
“There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.” KnowsEndsMightSoundPerfectCleanTemptation Author:David Byrne
“It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.” EndsWantedGirlThreeWishSoundMy OwnStepsFantasyWeekSceneBedEnglandCarefulHillsTherapyBe CarefulAversionCareful What You Wish For Author:Steve Coogan
“The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.” EndsBodyPoliticalSocialSoundStudentsDemandFlowUniversityEducationalErasConsiderationPrivilegedCriteriaStrategicCampusDissidentsAppeasement Book:The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.” IfsKnowsLittlesTwoEndsHandsParentSoundBlackFourTaughtThe End Of The DayPairsFrozenSkatesRumoursTwo Sisters Author:Bobby Hull
“3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.” IfsThinkingEndsReasonUseCertainSoundEmotionalToolsAddColourLayersSaviour Author:Tim Burton
“End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)” ShouldEndsEnoughSoundAchievePoundsEchoesRhymeWelsh Author:Anne Stevens