Acoustically Transparent Quotes & Sayings

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate. — Herman Melville

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. — William Least Heat-Moon

A friend tweeted me with 'The Big Freeze.' I don't know about that one. I've got to go home, play around with the kids and figure something out. I'll have one. — Shaquille O'Neal

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic. — Gus Van Sant

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t! — Eminem