Quotes of: Soundness Keyword

He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose in the auditorium like a wind coming from all four directions, low and terrifying, rumbling up from the ground beneath the floor...

Train Dreams

Now drawing four fingers up the sides of her stomach, my hands create a kind of invisible wave that sounds beneath her skin. Molding her torso every which way as if it were clay for me to experiment, I study the lines of her iridescent form flowing i...

The Painter

Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce. Belgium! I repeat the word, now as I sit alone near mid...

The Professor

Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course of the remaining deaths. The prevailing symptom of this state was an inability to recall any sound. Truck doors slammed sil...

The Virgin Suicides

Prince Humperdinck: You truly love each other? Then you might have been truly happy! No couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the storybooks say. And so I think no man in a century will suffer as greatly as you will [Throws the lever on...

The Princess Bride

Colette: [to Linguini] How do you tell how good bread is without tasting it? Not the smell, not the look, but the *sound* of the crust. Listen. [she presses the bread between her hands] Colette: Oh, symphony of crackle. Only great bread sound this wa...

Ratatouille

Igor: What is this? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Schwartzwalder Kirschtorte. The Monster: [off-screen] MMMMMMM! Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Oh, do you like it? I'm not partial to desserts myself, but this is excellent. Igor: Who are you talking to? Dr...

Young Frankenstein

Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.

Crazy

You make them sound human." "Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human." She couldn't argue with that.

Dark Inside

You make me sound like an arrogant ass," he said. "Are you?" "No! I'm just me.

Dragon's Oath

You’re starting to sound like one of those songs that DJ’s play when they wanna clear out the dancefloor.

The Dissolve

The sidewalks flash silver with mica. Skyline smeared with geese. By way of recognition I lost the sound of your voice.

Down with the Ship

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

Eclipse

...unquestioning automatons blindly marching to the beat - an eerie crunching sound hoards of shuffling feet... (from silent moments)

Enigmatic Evolution

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

The Elite

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Envy

I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.

The Freshman: Volume II

Life sucks. Hard. I don’t care how melodramatic that sounds, it’s the truth and I’m living it.

The Final Piece

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

Gigolo

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

The Golden Apples of the Sun

You realise you’re going to owe me dinner after this, right?” “How does McDonald’s sound?” “Inadequate.

Her Best Friend