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“So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.”

Way Long Sound Week Mail Long Way Fax

Author:Marian McPartland

“A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.”

Way Certain Force Sound Effects Produce Letters Jew Rhythm Representatives Compelling Definite Sequence Mantras

Author:Sir John Woodroffe

“I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.”

People Way Believe Certain Sound Prove

Author:Coco Lee

“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.”

Thinking Way Sound Growth Gains Labor Performances Bases Reform Combination Permanent Improving Unemployment Reducing Adjustment Sustaining

Author:Lucas Papademos

“That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.”

Ifs Way Looks Happens Sound Cases Focus Worst Scenarios Worst Case Scenario Pollyanna Tripe

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.”

Way Feels Long I Can Language Sound Emotion Pieces Emotional Flow Focused Finished Rhythm

Author:Taiye Selasi

“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”

Thinking Way Life Sometimes Use Pain Beautiful Joy Fall Sound Water Prayer Silence Sky Praying Happenings Very Good Crowds Odd Over You Fourth Floats Rockets July Very Beautiful

Author:Frederick Buechner

“It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.”

Way Years Believe Humanity Sound Buddhism Don't Believe I Realized California

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.”

Way Country Today Sound Bluegrass

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.”

Way Sound Creative Remix

Author:Ann Wilson

“When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.”

Way Kind Character Political Literature Sound Statements Pretentious Trainspotting

Author:Irvine Welsh

“The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.”

People Way Believe Actors Sound Teach Like Something Monologues

Author:Margaret Whiting

“That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.”

Way Sound Records Mississippi Muddy Delta Old Records Mississippi Delta

Author:Muddy Waters

“If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.”

Ifs Men Way Heart Christian Sound Practice Progress Heard Expression Messages Demon Temples Orthodox Righteousness Word Of God Rooted Virtuous Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.”

Way Used Sound Records

Author:Christian Marclay

“I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Littles Jobs Sound Loses Millions Notes Dare Who I Am Like Me Sensitive Accents

Author:Jack McBrayer

“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.”

Way Trying Sound Rap

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Philosophy Film Sound Direct Asking Response Pompous

Author:Michel Gondry

“In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.”

Knows Way Looks Sound Like You Grandmother Your Grandmother

Author:Rian Johnson

“Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.”

Way Use Hands Sound Picks Guitar

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.”

Men Way Humans Heart Age Today Law Dies Names Sound Air Dog He Man Personality Dignity Stones Breaths Victim Our Time Executioners Human Personality

Author:Sadegh Hedayat

“There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.”

Thinking Way Want I Can Reality Might Sound Becoming Promise Accomplish I Promise Semantics

Author:Maynard Webb

“The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.”

Knows Way Hard Wisdom Form Sound Water Perfect Know How Cold Drink Perfection Hot Perceive Subtle Drink Water

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.”

Way Heart Sound Tree Sea Singing Ears Hearing Lovely Forests Rough Shells Bark Trunks Sap Sea Shell

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.”

People Thinking World Way Feels Mean Together Song Sound Clear And Love Feel Good Suits Melody Puzzles

Author:J. Robbins

“The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.”

Way Two Different Energy Sound Focus Albums Perceive Mixtapes

Author:Yelawolf