Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Victor Hugo

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

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.

James Mercer

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

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.

Judd Gregg

There's been a working majority for disregarding fiscal discipline, ... But so far, it's been a very small echo chamber.

Janet Fitch

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

Knut Hamsun

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

David Stockman

He operated on the echo principle: He told the president what he wanted to hear.

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.

Evelyn Glennie

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

William Shakespeare

By heaven, he echoes me,As if there were some monster in his thoughtToo hideous to be shown.

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.

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 Ive ever written.

Rabindranath Tagore

The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.

Lewis Black

I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

Pythagoras

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

Maggie Stiefvater

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

John Maeda

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

John Piper

All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

John Piper

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

Marshall McLuhan

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

Mike Cahill

I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically interact with, but are somehow intuitively there. Maybe you can see the ashes of that fire or the echoes of something happening on a domain not-here, whether that be coincidence, whether that be familiarity with somebody who's a stranger.

Oliver Goldsmith

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

Margaret Atwood

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

Harry Nilsson

Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

Julian Barnes

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

Kris Kristofferson

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Ray Bradbury

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.