Reverberations Quotes

#1. I believe,' Muswell once said, 'that mental isolation is the essence of weird fiction. Isolation when confronted with disease, with madness, with horror and with death. These are the reverberations of the infinity that torments us.
("The White Hands")

Mark Samuels

#2. If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world.

Stephen S. Roach

#3. The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Jared Diamond

#4. I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

Thomas McGuane

#5. I had been right the first time. His sonorous voice echoed through a hollow place of sorrow, catching its reverberations from those ragged walls. His gaiety masked a deep well of loneliness; he was a bright outward shape wrapped around shadows.

Sharon Shinn

#6. It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

Phillips Brooks

#7. Because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.

Salman Rushdie

#8. There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

Spike Lee

#11. It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

William J. Brennan

#12. For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been a collision. I feel too much, sense too much, am exhausted by the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.

May Sarton

#13. The Soletaken was sundering the barrier, its hungry roar deafening in its reverberations.

Steven Erikson

#14. Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit.

Angela Carter

#15. Love is like sounds, whose last reverberations / Hang on the leaves of strange trees, on mountains / As distant as the curving of the earth, / Where the snow hangs still in the middle of the air.
-from Love is Like Sounds

Donald Hall

#16. A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

Richard Corliss

#17. The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.

Jules Verne

#18. What he felt, though, was the echo of her flesh, and the reverberations of their farewell, with all its doubts and pleasures.

Diana Gabaldon

#19. In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.

James A. Michener

#20. And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

Azar Nafisi

#21. Across the river were two clouds in your eyes; and my kisses floated ascend from the heights of the sacred mountain -
there in the valley, where uncrowned hope of green fields and saffron came from flowers - delicate reverberations of rock walls we listened to our words of love.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#22. Ducks! Embrace me as your king!

Cassandra Clare

#23. The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.

Debbie Harry

#24. And she loved a boy very, very much
even more than she loved herself.

Shel Silverstein

#25. At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Emile Durkheim

#26. the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.

George E. Tinker

#27. With money you can buy Bible but not Faith.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#28. Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.

William Shakespeare

#29. People are fools, she said. They spend their whole lives getting stuck with pins and act like nothing's wrong, they just leave them there, and then one day they go and scratch someone's eyes out.

Yuri Herrera

#30. There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

Elon Musk

#31. I divide my time badly.

Antonio Banderas

#32. Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Alan Moore

#33. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomond
To her three wee Grandaughters one cold night.

Karen Hawkins

#34. A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#35. ...he'd made friends with the oblivion found in dreamless sleep."
~Aidan

Stephanie Stamm