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“I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.”

Able Song Grows Sound Ability Greater

Author:Will Ferrell

“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”

Men Giving Literature Sound Accepting Greater Advice Great Men Giving Advice Sound Advice

Author:J. C. Macaulay

“The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.”

Sound Greater Ignorance Empty Vessel Conceit Barrels Empty Vessels

Book:John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

“I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and more I purge myself of the stuff that had my focus so turned away from God, the more I shred myself, the more I have a greater connection to God. And what I know now that I didn't know then is that's why I'm here.”

Knows Littles Facts Stuff Sound Greater Focus Connections

Author:Stephen Baldwin

“I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”

“We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.”

Men Littles Earth Form Heaven Sound Differences Hell Greater Air Endure Word Of God Heaven And Earth Power Of God

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.”

Ifs Sound Silence Greater Music Is Jazz Silence Is

Author:Keith Jarrett

“If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.”

Ifs Should Sound Silence Greater Effects Chemicals Listeners Silence Is Physiological

Author:Keith Jarrett

“Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.”

Men Made Faces Sound Greater Conscience Letters Tests Blessed Rats Naughty Readiness Regularity Postman Easiness

Book:The History of Pendennis: Christie's Collections

Source: The History of Pendennis: Christie's Collections

“Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.”

World Courses Sound Greater Judgment Direct Guides Bells

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.”

Feels Writing May Hands Force Sound Greater Pages Standing Pens Middlemen

Author:Neil Simon

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Art Done Past Humanity Sound Goal Can Do Greater Fine Compare Mentality Fine Arts Oxford Oxford University Comparing Yourself

Author:Kanye West

“Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.”

Giving Sound Greater Listening Understood Sacredness

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks