Sounds Quotes (page 87)

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• time
• words
• house

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. Shirley Jackson

• people
• little
• soundness

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them. L. M. Montgomery

• little
• kids
• death

Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like " I am Starfishhh! James Patterson

• today
• tomorrow
• my everything

I had once been splintered into a million beings and objects. Today I am one, tomorrow I shall splinter again. And thus everything in the world decants and modulates. That day I was on the crest of a wave. I knew that all my surroundings were notes of one and the same harmony, knew - secretly - the source and the inevitable resolution of the sounds assembled for an instant, and the new chord that would be engendered by each of the dispersing notes. My soul's musical ear knew and comprehended... Vladimir Nabokov

• giving
• him
• gladiator

Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage. Roberto Bolano

• crying
• cry
• her

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard. Haruki Murakami

• evening
• through
• linger

Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air. Haruki Murakami

• help
• promise
• unhappy

It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down. I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?"Yeah Jake. I know that. And I already do count on you, probably more than you know. Stephenie Meyer

• brainly
• heart
• giving

I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too nave to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain. Charlotte Bronte

• thoughts
• she
• earth

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. Barbara Kingsolver

• kindness
• she
• kindly

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea. James Patterson

• music
• believe
• horse

all that I know is that I believe inthe sound of music and therunning of a horse. all else is squabble. Charles Bukowski

• bad
• soundness
• sound

It's not as bad as it sounds. Mark Twain

• empty
• make
• making

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. Plato

• dog
• sea
• clock

I wish we could spend July be the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by... Zelda Fitzgerald