Acoustical Quotes

#1. There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

Yo-Yo Ma

#2. Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion.

Thomas Hampson

#3. In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.

Jean Leclercq

#4. Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#5. The damn bells kept ringing through the fog. Bud mumbled a command to his music system, a phased acoustical array splayed across both eardrums like the seeds on a strawberry. The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which

Neal Stephenson

#6. He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream
clearly coming from a small, female child. It was highly acoustical, as though it were reverberating within four tiled walls.

J.D. Salinger

#7. There are days that I get neurotic with the violin. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced.

Joshua Bell

#8. There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

Rita Ora

#9. Your presence is my happiness,
Your love is my life, and together with you we do have hope.

Manuel Lemos

#10. I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Vikram Seth

#11. Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

William Blackstone

#12. Why do you lie" I ask her.
"To block the truth."
Fair enough.
Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.

Rachel Cohn

#13. In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,

Mark Kurlansky

#14. God does not have some limited supply of power, requiring that we carefully select a few choice things to pray about. God's power is infinite. God's grace and mercy are drawn deeply from the bottomless well of His heart.

Beth Moore

#15. There was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.

Alan Bennett

#16. People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.

Kevin Powers

#17. Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

Adam Clarke

#18. As for whether the magic in The Crown's Game is real, well . . . that depends. Do you believe in what you cannot see?

Evelyn Skye

#19. As Trick points out, sports leagues aren't concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory. For

Brian Christian

#20. Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension
And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.

Hayley Williams

#21. Faith is to the Christian what Google is to the computer! EL

Evinda Lepins

#22. The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Thomas De Quincey