Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs . . . and listen to the sounds my wife and children make as they sleep, the sounds our animals make as they step carefully through our dreams and out the other side to polished floor and cold window. Sometimes I wait so long I become unsure if I am asleep, or awake, or dead. —Steve Rasnic Tem More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time. . . . That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war. —Jonathan Safran Foer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty. —Daphne Koller More about this quote Tags: uncertainty noise the world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The computer, the noise of the computer, feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me. —Tony Kushner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. —Alan Moore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: the winds were a chorus of the prairie's ever-present heartaches. —Andrew Galasetti More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every living thing (and perhaps many a dead one as well) pays heed to that call. To the deer it is a reminder of the way of all flesh, to the pine a forecast of midnight scuffles and of blood upon the snow, to the coyote a promise of gleanings to come, to the cowman a threat of red ink at the bank, to the hunter a challenge of fang against bullet. Yet behind these obvious and immediate hopes and fears there lies a deeper meaning, known only to the mountain itself. Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf. —Aldo Leopold More about this quote Tags: meaning blood calling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock, rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night. It is an outburst of wild defiant sorrow, and of contempt for all the adversities of the world. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who knows? perhaps the same / bird echoed through both of us / yesterday, separate, in the evening . . . —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. —Anne Carson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what the "story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. —Charles R. Skinner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your entire life changes the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. —Hal Elrod in The Miracle Morning More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her―then don't let her go. —Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful. —Simon Van Booy in The Secret Lives of People in Love More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email