“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.” MayMeanArtFeelingsFormSoundLinesMovementColorExpressionActivityOneselfEvoke Author:Leo Tolstoy
“If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.” IfsMenAbleActionSoundActivitySatisfiedTheeHeroicExpectingLive Happy Book:Meditations Source: Meditations
“There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.” IfsKnowsTogetherSoundAdviceActivityReactionsHorribleChemicalsMaking LoveCognitiveChemical Reactions Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.” HumanitySoundCitiesAirStreetsNew YorkActivityRiversFinancialNew York CityThickTrafficRushingBustleWeekdays Author:Jennifer Dunning
“The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.” MayCountrySoundGrowthAcceptingEconomicStrangeActivityAimRequirementsEconomic GrowthPactProtocolKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Andrey Illarionov
“Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.” MaySaidSelfOrderSocialEasySoundInterestActivityMembersConcernDifficultyMotiveCynicalSelflessnessRoyalSelf InterestGiverEndeavourPrestigeCharitableSocial OrderBritish HistoryRoyal Family Author:David Cannadine
“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.” LightFormSoundExistenceTeachingModernActivityRootsAncientMysteriousManifestationCyclesElectricityEvidentRapidsVibrationsRecogniseOccultModern Science Author:Paul Foster Case
“I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.” ThinkingImportantSoundMovementActivityRationalAppealsPhrases Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood