Top 33 H Sound Quotes
#1. I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.
H.M. Tomlinson
#2. Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
#3. This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound - the verminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats.
H.P. Lovecraft
#4. That's because you hate parties," said Trevor. I corrected him. "I hate parties with more than 16 people, remember? It's an exact science," Trevor chuckled, the sound hitting me right in the pit of my stomach."The 16 person rule, I remember now. You were always specific about that number
L. H. Cosway
#5. The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.
James H. Cone
#6. The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.
H.P. Lovecraft
#7. At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.
Eugene H. Peterson
#8. The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.
H. John Poole
#9. If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
David H. Hackworth
#10. For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
H. Rider Haggard
#11. A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
Roy H. Williams
#12. There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
H.L. Mencken
#13. Puget Sound Community School. Like Sudbury and Big Picture, this tiny independent school in Seattle, Washington, gives its students a radical dose of autonomy, turning the "one size fits all" approach of conventional schools on its head.
Daniel H. Pink
#14. That flopping or pattering was monstrous--I could not look upon the degenerate creatures responsible for it. I would keep my eyes shut till the sound receded toward the west.
H.P. Lovecraft
#15. We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M.H. Abrams
#16. Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.
H.L. Mencken
#17. Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, "Cthulhu fhtagn".
H.P. Lovecraft
#18. Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them ... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
D.H. Lawrence
#19. You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
Eugene H. Peterson
#20. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
W. H. Auden
#21. The air was full of sound, a defenning and confusing conflict of noises (...)
H.G.Wells
#22. [T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.
H.L. Mencken
#23. For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.
Eugene H. Peterson
#25. He was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become and empty sound.
H.P. Lovecraft
#26. The worst of all things that haunt poor mortal men," said I; "and that is, in all its nakedness - 'Fear!' Fear that will not have light or sound, that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms.
H.G.Wells
#28. Whilst never actually rebuffing a visitor, he always reared such a wall of reserve that few could think of anything to say to him which would not sound inane.
H.P. Lovecraft
#29. Give yourself to reading.' ... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,
especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H.L. Mencken
#31. Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.
H.G.Wells
#32. He looks up at the sound of the gravel crunch on the driveway, and I catch a flash of impression, a reclusive animal surprised in his lair by the arrival of the hunters.
Ben H. Winters
#33. Applause is the most powerful thing ... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
C. C. H. Pounder
