No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.

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Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK We think it's best for everyone involved . . . if these restrictions are adhered to and are followed...
GARY MICKELSON

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea...
NEIL GAIMAN If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the suns...
THICH NHAT HANH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for thos...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through dif...
JENNIFER SODINI What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN If we have echoes, those echoes step on top of the spoken word, and then you can't understand it. An...
JACK RANDORFF I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like ...
MOLLY IVINS In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earne...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earne...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I thi...
NOBUO UEMATSU I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no be...
ELIZABETH COLEMAN We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibr...
COLEMAN YOUNG It's a loss. We are 2-1. What happened last year doesn't matter. We beat them once and lost to them ...
ALAN FANECA Love can take one over the clouds, out to space
And also to the depths of the Earth where you ...
LUNA MARYM We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. ...
WALTER MOSLEY ...no matter how damaged or lost you think you are you can find your way back. Keep believing and yo...
JOEY RENEE In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word e...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One ...
MARY BALOGH The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and al...
G.K. CHESTERTON Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always ...
EDUARDO GALEANO We are all very pleased that Colonial is once again safely delivering both gasoline and distillates ...
DAVID LEMMON We are all very pleased that Colonial is once again safely delivering both gasoline and distillates ...
DAVID LEMMON The biggest issue facing the new secretary of labor should be the complete reform of the state emplo...
AUDREY FREEDMAN Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no l...
M. SCOTT PECK I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's about time, ... It echoes where we are going with the economy -- and it's long overdue.
CRAIG ELLIS We ended up winning all four of those key matches and it would have been a different story if we los...
CHAD HITCHEN But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Even in rain, we can be facinated with sensations of beauty in the world, sight, sound, smell, and d...
ROBERT E. BERG I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he ha...
PETER JACKSON Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD We lost a little bit of confidence I think. All year long we told them to play with confidence. Toni...
DAVE KERSCHBAUMER No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE PROCTER No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN We find an issue with some of them, but as long as they know the role of the solution and the direct...
DAVE GYNN As long as we can continue to find voids under the pile, it means that there could be somebody still...
BOB ROPER I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequ...
JASMINE GUY Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We don't have the resources to force people out of their homes. But we have made it very clear to th...
CRYSTAL HOLMES We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true—if you lo...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this b...
ROB BELL When there are wars within us, it will not be long before we are at war with others, even those we l...
THICH NHAT HANH No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
ADELAIDE PROCTOR Those two guys are by far the best athletes I have ever had in this program. Ray and Isaiah have bee...
JUSTIN NELSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure!...
MARISHA PESSL I remind them of a few games that got away from us and the mistakes we made in those games. I remind...
HARRY BOWSER I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri...
LUKE COMBS It was a real easy decision and not a big undertaking at all. We knew those arrangements, and those ...
WILL TURPIN The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassur...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER He has forgotten more about the history of baseball and the Cats than we´ll ever know, ... We´ve l...
CARL BELL My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North Am...
STEVE KANALY Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
RAY BRADBURY There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long frien...
GREG BEAR We fought your wars with all our heartsYou've sent us back in body partsYou took our wills with the ...
SERJ TANKIAN Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
MOTHER TERESA Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten...
ANNE SEXTON All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars ...
MARGARET MITCHELL There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are remembered and those who are forgotten. Th...
LORRIN L. LEE All those people hardly have anything at all -- no photos, no nothing. Some lost family members. I s...
CAITLYN ANDERSEN Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucke...
CARL SAGAN Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucke...
DR. CARL SAGAN Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.
JACK THORNE All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER That can potentially recapture some of the business lost.
JOE WEINERT Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and imme...
ERIC JAY DOLIN James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Our customers are a vital focus for us and we are focused on offering them services that are truly i...
LAURENT MIALET We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the...
MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding...
MORGAN MATSON When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professiona...
JONATHAN MABERRY I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes o...
L.M. MONTGOMERY It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind o...
JOAN DIDION Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
PABLO NERUDA Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive a...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life ...
PERICLES We had a very long discussion about what all the options are. And I think we've narrowed them down t...
LANCE CONN When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Today, we do fight a different enemy, but one that is no less ruthless, no less determined, no less ...
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RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing
RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
RAY BRADBURY

No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.

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