Sound

Famous quotes containing the word sound:

“Monte Beragon: When I’m close to you like this, there’s a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
Mildred Pierce: No, what?
Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy’s.
Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.”
—Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)

“In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”
—Harold Evans (b. 1928)

“some petals fall
with that sound one
listens for....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)