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“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.”

Men Sound Fit Disease Fallen

Book:The Tragedy of King Lear

Source: The Tragedy of King Lear

“When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.”

Wells Doe Matter Hands Evil Fun Sound Sun Fit Safe No Matter What Mad Rounds Ghost Good And Evil Midnight Gloves Safe And Sound

Author:Van Morrison

“To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.”

Believe Wells Sound Fit Truth Is Expectations Determined Familiar Encounters Consistently Contests

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”

Long Matter Age Causes Sound Numbers Poet Fit Tragedy Faults Notes Musical Delight Invention Prime Italian Quantity Verses Rejected Rhyme Wretched Avoided Meter Lame Syllables Oratory

Author:John Milton

“Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.”

Guy Sound Fit Baseball Cards Als Uniforms Surveillance Caps Al Qaeda Nsa Accusation Baseball Caps

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.”

Sound Fit Like Me Realms

Author:Kid Cudi

“I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Difficult Sound Born Gone Strange Fit Mouths Boxes Assumption Auditions Ethiopia

Author:Ruth Negga

“The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.”

Writing Ideas Whole Seems Poetry Literature Understanding Sound Novel Students Fit Sonnet Daft

Author:Nicholas Royle

“You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.”

Long Song Sound Sides Perfect Particular Fit Tempo Your Side Waiter Noodles Perfect Fit

Book:Essays in Disguise

Source: Essays in Disguise

“I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.”

Lost Sound Fit Trade Novelists Using Words

Author:Woodrow Wilson