Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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.

John Piper

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

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 .

Rajneesh

Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.

Theodor Adorno

There is no love that is not an echo.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

Michael Ondaatje

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

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.

Eric Hoffer

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

Jake Gyllenhaal

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault

Helen Garner

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

Philip Larkin

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue is no empty echo.

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

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.