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“The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what comes out. It's similar to if you're writing a character talking with their mouth full: the only way I know to transcribe that is to stuff my fist in my mouth and write down what sounds I make when I try to talk.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Book Character Stuff Sound Rooms Secret Talking Seeing Effects Mouths Comic Comic Book Fists Sound Effects

Author:Ryan North

“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”

Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself

“Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.”

Ifs Men May Stills Wanted Sound Voice Secret Half Slavery

Book:The Praise Singer: A Virago Modern Classic

Source: The Praise Singer: A Virago Modern Classic

“The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.”

Sound Secret Driving Pupils

Author:Robert Baden-Powell

“No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.”

Able Sound Secret Cat Subtle Purring

Book:The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats

Source: The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats

“Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.”

World Heart Sound Voice Secret Determined Noise Spots Each Day Tunes Retiring Fades Inward Closets God's Presence Secret Places

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.”

Men World Way Law Choices Evil Sound Common Secret Democracy Path Walking Ethics Fairs Fellows Good And Evil Fellow Man Common Law

Book:All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

“My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.”

Sound Secret Issues Breaths Woe My Thoughts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

“The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.”

Firsts Sound Prayer Secret Doors Heard Blessing Rain Increase Ministers Abundance Closets Revival Revival Prayer Harbinger

Author:Andy Murray