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“Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.”

Different Use Sound Female Males Details Tone Gossip Feedback Animated

Author:Kate Fox

“Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.”

Giving Humans Made Joy Sound Voice Human Beings Music Sweet Capable Appreciate Instruments Musical Delight Hearing Tone Exquisite Harmonious Musical Instruments Human Voice

Author:Brigham Young

“Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'”

Ifs Way Wells Doe Said Political Guy Politics Causes Sound Talking Rose Gentleman Tone Appropriate Yield Senators Other Guys Maine Oregon Coyotes

Author:Will Rogers

“Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.”

Sound Love Is Common Raises Notes Tone Fiery

Author:William Carlos Williams

“What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.”

Trying Hands Force Sound Painting Masters Instruments Musical Driven Tone Unseen Musical Instruments Looming Unseen Forces

Author:Arnold Friberg

“However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones”

Self Sound Voice Loses Love Is Virtue Self Love Ears Harmony Tone Fancy Delusion Attempting Sweetest Tedious Orators Tiresome

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

“There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.”

People Ifs Should Wells Two Whole Use Able Used Sound Hell Balance Band Instruments Distance Depth Guitar Studios Tone Maxims Microphones Mics Tracking Placement

Author:Jimmy Page

“If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.”

Ifs Light Sound Cities Air Built Architecture Graves Fantastic Tone Solemn Edifice Sound Of Music

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.”

Wells Different Moving Language Sound Voice Air Tree Wind Shapes Summer Fingers Tone Theme Dry Autumn Strings Harsh Leafs Filling Harps Murmuring

Book:The Glory of the Garden

Source: The Glory of the Garden

“Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.”

Men Needs Giving Wells Ideas Eye Beautiful Form Sound Lines Heard Color Ears Sight Details Contrary Senses Perceive Tone His Eyes Humankind Brutes Arrested Sight And Sound

Author:John Henry Newman

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?”