Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecelia Ahern

Empty words almost echo within themselves

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

William Shakespeare

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

George Lucas

It echoes what is about to occur with Anakin.

It echoes really well in the Freehold Raceway Mall.

John Cage

Every something is an echo of nothing

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.

Novalis

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

George William Curtis

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.