Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Henry Parkhurst

The old echoes are long in dying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

George Eliot

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

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.

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?