“I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.” PeopleWantMeanCoursesSoundTermLossNiceCome UpPrivacySmall ThingsVery NiceAnonymityAppreciativeNice People Author:Todd Solondz
“However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.” ThinkingSoundTermEnvironmentEffectsSound Effects Author:Nobuo Uematsu
“I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.” MatterFactsSoundTermNo Matter What Author:Sondre Lerche
“It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.” EasySoundTermEffortCleanEnthusiasmShort TermSustaining Author:William Ruckelshaus
“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.” ThinkingKnowsWantMeanFeelingsSoundTermMy OwnExpressionPaintDislikeCultIsmsExpressionismExponents Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.” PeopleLongIdeasSoundTermTechnologyAcceptanceComputerBunchObjectivesConventionsPackagesInexorableComputer Technology Author:Ted Nelson
“By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.” MeanRealityEyeEnergySpeakSoundTermAcceptingOur LivesDestructionAcknowledgeDefiniteFear Of DeathRefusalParts Of LifeAdmittingInevitabilityParadoxicalFull LifeReality Of Death Author:Etty Hillesum
“I'm not a one-sex person, and yet I hate the term bisexual. It sounds creepy to me, and I don't think I'm creepy. There are times when I feel downright romantic.” ThinkingFeelsPersonsHateSexSoundTermI HateSexualityCreepyBisexual Author:Martina Navratilova
“A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.” IfsThinkingKindLongSometimesHardHelpingBigsMightTogetherSoundTermBandDown AndLong TermThemeEnduranceBankingShowing UpLong Term Relationship Author:Rob Delaney
“I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'” PeopleKnowsKindUseStuffSoundTermWillingAdventureHappeningsRidiculous80sCool ThingsWacky Author:Emma Stone
“So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.” SoundTermStudyBlockFilmmakerEditingStaging Author:Ramin Bahrani
“It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.” SpeakEasySoundTermIssuesEnvironmentOur LivesTruth IsThreatInsaneInternalsCommunistEnginesLayersOur EnvironmentSpeaks OutCombustionOzoneOzone Layer Author:Bill Maher
“I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.” IfsThinkingWayHas BeensSoundTermSweetShameIndependencePopsAssociationGesturesPop Music Author:Solange Knowles
“I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.” MenEarthPoliticalPoliticsSoundTermSleepOfficeAmbitionFellowsPainfulDelightStormNeighborRidingSublimeSpyLaborersTerm LimitsThanklessSycophantsNeighbors FriendsSound Sleep Book:A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters Source: A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters
“As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.” SeemsLanguageSoundTermDecisionEtcUnlikelyNuanceTranslators Author:Ann Goldstein
“What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible to be happy, or to achieve happiness. Happiness sounds like this magical destination that you arrive at and then everything is sort of solved, or it's different.” PeopleDifferentSoundTermAchieveDenyDestinationIntimidating Author:Gretchen Rubin