Top 30 Sonorous Quotes

#1. For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community - connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Amanda Palmer

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#2. Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

James Russell Lowell

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#3. Neither the secret whirring song of the stars nor the sonorous canticles of the earth knew the language that sprang up in the space between us. It was a dialect of heartbeats, strung together with the lilt of long suffering and the incandescent hope of an infinite future.

Roshani Chokshi

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#4. I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

Derek Jeter

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#5. It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Samuel Smiles

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#6. I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

Andy Roddick

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#7. I began to shiver. You never know how much you miss a person's warmth until they stop giving it to you.

Anonymous

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#8. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

William Cowper

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#9. He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#10. I love tremendous and sonorous words.

Virginia Woolf

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#11. The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

Charlotte Lennox

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#12. And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#13. Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.

Graham Foust

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#14. I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that ... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Kobe Bryant

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#15. Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.

William Faulkner

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#16. A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Gustave Flaubert

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#17. I don't think people are skeptical. I think people appreciate the authenticity, actually. I think people are looking for authentic leaders these days and being yourself.

Mark T Bertolini

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#18. The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language ... the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

John Oliver

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#19. To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

Will Self

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#20. Here I want to see those men of hard voice.
Those that break horses and dominate rivers;
those men of sonorous skeleton who sing
with a mouth full of sun and flint.

Federico Garcia Lorca

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#21. 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

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#22. We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Bill Moyers

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#23. Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Charles Sturt

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#24. All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.

Blind Melon

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#25. Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

Dan Miller

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#26. Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

Edgar Johnson

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#27. The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man.

Alexandre Dumas

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#28. Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

Lester Levenson

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#29. Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

Wanda Landowska

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#30. I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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