Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Alan Parsons

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

Alan Moore

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

Charles Baudelaire

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

The old echoes are long in dying.

The Edge

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

Justine Larbalestier

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

Aimee Bender

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

Andrew O'Hagan

I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.

James Mercer

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

Orson Scott Card

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.

Anna Jameson

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

Anna Jameson

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past

Ronnie Wood

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

It's probably not as progressive politically as it used to be, ... We still have echoes of that, but we don't program as much overtly progressive stuff.

It's about time, ... It echoes where we are going with the economy -- and it's long overdue.

Vachel Lindsay

Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara.

Herbert Spencer

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

Henry David Thoreau

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.

Jill Clayburgh

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

James A. Baldwin

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

George William Curtis

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Evelyn Glennie

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

Friedrich Nietzsche

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Eric Clapton

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

Fiona Apple

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,

Henri Barbusse

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.