Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

David Stockman

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

Harry Nilsson

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

Isaac Marion

In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.

Isaac Marion

Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?

William Shakespeare

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

John Cage

Every something is an echo of nothing

Novalis

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Merrill Markoe

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

Jacob Bronowski

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

Lewis Black

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

John Maeda

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

Lord Byron

I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

Gene Wolfe

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

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.

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.

George Santayana

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

George Santayana

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

Robert Henri

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

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.

Richard Holbrooke

MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

Samuel Rogers

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?

Yannick Noah

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.