Sonority Quotes

#1. Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard.

J.D. Salinger

#2. I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of music, and should not introduce meanings or intentions into the diction before clearly grasping the system of sounds that every poem must offer on pain of nonexistence.

Paul Valery

#3. Because it exists as a living sonority, music is animated by voices, and these voices do not evaporate when music confronts the insights of contemporary literary criticism, or philosophy of language.

Carolyn Abbate

#4. In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#5. Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).

Michael Snow

#6. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher Von Braun

#7. Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

Helen Caldicott

#8. I'll never be the best guitar player.

Chad Kroeger

#9. Mirth is God's medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

#11. Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

Arianna Huffington

#12. No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

Lynn Austin

#13. She was the only thing I needed. If everything else went away tomorrow, the big house, all the cars, the money, I wouldn't care. As long as I still got to hold her every night, I would still be the luckiest guy in the world.

Kirsty Moseley

#14. When we practice or teach a thing we should be able to give New Testament authority for so doing.

William E. Cox

#15. It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits ...

James K. Polk