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“You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.”

Ifs Looks Sound Thousand Opera Handel

Author:Isaac Mizrahi

“A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.”

Dies Sound Thousand Degrees Distance Circles Gentle Breeze Airy Languish Trill

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Spirit Sound Sleep Inspire Thousand Fame Glory Empty Vain Awake Immortal Honour Recalls Clay Trumpets Breathless Empty Words

Book:The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.”

“What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?”

World Use Girl Sound Party Dying Thousand Twenties Seven Lovely Poison Violin Other Worlds Groaning

Book:The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

“The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.”

Years Song Sound Music Alive Thousand Musician Hills Thousand Years Sound Of Music Sound And Music Film And Music

Author:Oscar Hammerstein II

“There are about a thousand different variations on a horse neigh. Some of them sound like a horse having sex, some of them like a horse having sad sex.”

Different Sex Sound Thousand Horse Variation Having Sex

Author:Denis Leary

“The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.”

People Long Running Sound Dangerous Thousand Faults Brilliant Doctrine Long Runs Inquiry Maxims Authorship Beacons

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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