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“There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.”

Giving Wells May Order Understanding Sound Ears Harmony Notes Strikes Proportion Pace Spheres

Author:Thomas Browne

“It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.”

Giving Looks Given Sound Minutes Honest Havens Fairs Vote Responsible Election Strikes Statements Damn Things To Do Voters Not Fair

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high, Because all sounds do highly move aloft; And that they may not pierce too violently, They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft. For should the voice directly strike the brain, It would astonish and confuse it much; Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain. That it the organ may more gently touch.”

Should May Soul Moving Turns Sound Voice Brain Hearing Strikes Organs Delay Folds Pierce Plaits

Author:Sir John Davies

“any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.”

People Knows Seems Faces Sound Powerful Heard Criticism Strikes Reputation Face To Face Larger Than Life

Book:That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others

Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others

“I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.”

Ifs Trying Kind Mean Littles Bits Process Sound Path Students Expression Masters Little Bit Notes Strikes Evolve Grades New Things Trying New Things Maestro

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”

Firsts Sometimes Eye Sound Lines Vision Poet Speech Ears Strikes Locals Rhythm His Eyes Farmers Verses Texture Frost Bleak Epigrams Hold Fast

Author:Michael Donaghy

“I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.”

Ifs Feels Done Whole Moments Fun Sound Projects Determined Strikes Whole Life Worthwhile

Author:Steve Martin

“There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!”

Men Heart Eye Night Sound Thousand Beats Fairs Bravery Brave Strikes Rising Bells Lamps Merry Brave Man Belgium Chivalry Heart Beat Hush Her Beauty Voluptuous Revelry

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose