Quotes of: Sound-science Keyword

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Of Mice and Men

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Neuromancer

She glanced down at the contents of her plate. "Sloppy Joe," she managed. "Hmm," he said, sounding doubtful. "May he rest in peace.

Nevermore

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

Norwegian Wood

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

The Name of the Wind

My love is atonal. It sounds like a bodily function (walking, or sometimes running). 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

I suppose you’re young,’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

Latest Accessory

I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.

Looking for Alaska

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Light in August

Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.

Little, Big

What the hell is that?" he asked. "Magic mushrooms." "I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.

Lullabies for Little Criminals

Lydia could hear music too, of accordion, horn and tuba bands, their oompa-pa oompa lumpen sounds like the bellows of bulls or moos of cows.

Lydia's Golden Drum

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

Legend

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Leaves of Grass

But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others.

The Little Prince

Love sounds like a trumpet mimicking a trombone. That’s one of my hobbies, when I’m not impersonating statues of mimes.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

In our forests part divine and makes her heart palpitate wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!

M: Writings '67-'72

Your sword is made out of your grandmother’s bones?” “Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice

Magic Breaks

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

The Sea of Monsters

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

Surrender