William Stafford Quotes

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

William Stafford

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sound

• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  

  Wale
  • Beauty
  • Sound
  • Fake

• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Different
  • Unique

• I'm an early-morning owl.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Morning
  • Owl

• I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Night
  • Used
  • Owl

• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Sound
  • Security

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Way
  • Me
  • Hate

• Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • May
  • Attention
  • Sound

• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Political
  • Me
  • Sound

• My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Elements

• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Audience

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Sound
  • Down

• It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Style
  • Military
  • Army

• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Sound

• The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

  

  William Blake
  • Black
  • Owl
  • Wished

• In those days, I didn't know how guys like Clapton and Beck were getting that searing blues lead sound, so I developed my style to be rhythmic and chord-based, with simple lead lines that you could almost hum.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Guy
  • Simple
  • Style

• My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • My Life
  • Imagine
  • Force

• I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Want
  • Sky

• What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Exciting
  • Dragons

• An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

  

  William Stafford
  • Sound
  • Ears
  • Owl