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“I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.”

People Way Believe Certain Sound Prove

Author:Coco Lee

“Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.”

Sound Television Expression Communication Prove Asking Communicate Gestures Speakers Facial Watchers Facial Expression

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”

May Book Enough Would Be Reading Sound Rooms Powerful Imagine Prove Elements Music Is Sitting Notes Foolish Mysterious Agents Atmosphere Piano Belittle

Book:What to Listen For in Music

Source: What to Listen For in Music

“Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.”

World Humans Sound Music Heard Prove Music Is Tragedy Human Life Prove It

Book:Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey

Source: Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey

“One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.”

People May Reason Whole Energy Given Sound Prove Capacity Sexuality Arguing Nuclear Ecstasy Inaccessible Scruples Nuclear Energy Amenable

Author:Susan Sontag

“But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice? Then for thine accent--what in sound can be So void of grace as dull monotony?”

Long Doe Faces Sound Virtue Grace Nice Prove Vices Dull Broads Clothings Void Accents Formal Sober Scorn Jest Monotony

Author:George Crabbe

“Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.”

Moments Poetry Literature Sound Prove Memorable Pounds Avoided Texture Eliot Memorable Moments

Book:Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014

Source: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014

“[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.”

Men Sound Democracy Crime Prove Argument Offense Prove It

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy