Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content. — Paul Virilio
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often — Unknown
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise. — Freddie Mercury
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting. — Hans Zimmer
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm. — Andre Kostelanetz
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Short Sound Bites Quotes
Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless. — Mother Theresa
The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. — Giorgio Moroder
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. — Paul Eldridge
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. — Sophocles
No one ever complains about a speech being too short! — Ira Hayes
Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own. — Bo Burnham
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. — Bill Murray
To the good listener, half a word is enough. — Danish Proverbs
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen
Sound Bites Image Quotes
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.
Beavis Quotes
You can ask Beavis...
I get nothing but head. — Big L
If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead. — Nikki Sixx
Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis. — Mike Judge
Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.
Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this. — Sylvia Day
People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me. — Mike Judge
As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser. — Michael Moore
Thunder is the sound of hoofbeats in heaven.
The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead. — Paul Krugman
I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis. — Nelly
Sound Bites And Quotes
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that. — Matthew Collings
We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed. — Marc Maron
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. — John Steinbeck
You can handle almost anything if you simply take one bite at a time.
When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language. — Juan Williams
A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything. — Eric San
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. — Barack Obama
Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.
I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing. — Kristen Stewart
A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything. — Kid Koala
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. — Malcolm Turnbull
If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress. — Alcee Hastings
When I Hear This Song Quotes
And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions. — Channing Tatum
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing. — Ava Gardner
When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!" — Caroline Polachek
Normally I don't listen to my songs. I hear when I'm in the process of creation, of course, but not when I come home, for example, and I listen my album, and this is different. — Enrique Iglesias
Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will read different kinds of books, they don't read Lord of the Rings when they're 30 even though they did at 15. — Phil Collins
Sometimes it could be just during the day, when I'm riding in the car or on the plane. I'll hear somebody say something that strikes a chord and I write it down and write bars at a time, and then when I'm in the studio I go to those bars and I'm like, "Maybe I should make a song about this." — Tyga
I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general - is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, "Hey, I've felt that exact way as a human being," and there's no easy way to describe it. — Craig Finn
When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them. — Eric Hutchinson
Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp. — Maggie Stiefvater
Sound Of The Beach Quotes
I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks. — Emo Philips
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all. — Miranda Richardson
To me, Miami is like Hell and I'm Osiris when it comes to music - I'm underrated and I came through with this rare sound. "East" means east of Miami, which is South Beach. So I'm the "Osiris of the East", I became my own god in music, and I took over South Beach. — SpaceGhostPurrp
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more. — J.M. Barrie
I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea. — Genesis Rodriguez
On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss. — Christopher Paolini
Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time. — Roy Wood
Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're. — DJ Spooky
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds. — Alexander Maclaren
The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity. — Elon Musk
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow. — Jonathan Lethem
You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory. — Temple Grandin
What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America. — Wangechi Mutu
Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does. — Bernadine Dorn
Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does. — Bernardine Dohrn
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody. — Thomas Sowell
Donald Trump has been about we, the people. I just wanted to counter that sound bite because that's part of the problem, bad sound bites. He's been about we the people. If he were just about Donald Trump, you wouldn't have had 14 million people voting for him. — Herman Cain
I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you. — Barack Obama
Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love. — Steven Cojocaru
It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions. — Hillary Clinton
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth. — Marina Sirtis
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure. — Emily Blunt
I personally really love food. But I even annoy myself when I say something like "Oh, I like burgers," because I sound like one of those girls. The ones who say, "I love pizza!" Bullsh*t. You don't love pizza, you love a bite of pizza — Chrissy Teigen
As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice. — David Corn
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber
The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid. — Kato Kaelin
It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want. — Jack White
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. — Tim Frick
Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray. — Joe Berlinger
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up. — Barbara Kingsolver
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do. — Max Brooks
Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, "sound barks," not even sound bites. — Bonnie Raitt
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas — Dan Hill
I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky. — Chloe Sevigny
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. — Sydney Pollack
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. — Leon Kass
It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites. — Betsy McCaughey
We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it. — Howard Rheingold
I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem. — Barack Obama
[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone. — Barack Obama
My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that. — Jay Mohr
You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy. — Barack Obama
If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems. — Barack Obama
We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention. — Max Lucado
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