Nonspeech Sounds Quotes & Sayings

People today are developing an aversion to thinking. — Anonymous

When she was afraid, nervous, or uncomfortable, all she had to do was focus on the science to feel balanced again. It was no different now. — Nnedi Okorafor

You're worse than those bikers," she spat, her body tense and coiling, ready to attack. "At least they knew they were monsters. You're pathetic! You're a monster who imagines he's something else. — C.J. Roberts

If I was gay, I'd ... I'd be mesmerized by you. I'd listen to every word that fell out of your mouth like it was diamonds made of sound waves. I'd memorize the pattern of freckles on your back and spend months taking cooking classes just to find something you'd eat. You are kind, and you are funny, and you are brave, and any man who has you needs to see all that or he just isn't worth the laces in your combat boots, you hear me — Amy Lane

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just - wanted. — Maggie Stiefvater

The human facility for perceiving speech begins very young: small babies have been shown to prefer the sounds of speech to nonspeech sounds. It is a fascinating paradox that humans can hear only up to fifteen different non-speech sounds per second, and beyond this they hear unremitting noise. Yet when they decode speech, they hear twenty to thirty distinct sounds per second. Somehow human speakers can pack, and in turn unpack, almost twice as many sounds if those sounds consist of consonants and vowels that are the components of the language they speak. — Christine Kenneally

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy. — Cliff Martinez

I have no peace, in this world or any other. — Jalaluddin Rumi

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries. — Matt Groening

But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what that is. — Truman Capote

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend out first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives. — Alice McDermott

Nice, Dex," she sneered. "You couldn't wait to get in her pants, could you? You're a pig."
"And you're the shit this pig used to roll around in. — Karina Halle

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next. — Jeff Tweedy

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe