James Sheridan Knowles famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Silence #Sound #Fine
What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Sports #Fire #Air
Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#House #Domesticity
Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Weed #Heart #Errors
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Ocean #Men #Race
Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Steps #Neighbor #Extremes
Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Marriage #Brother #Children
The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Running #Kings #Men
Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.
-- James Sheridan Knowles

#Heart #Wedlock

Only silence perfects silence.
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.
Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

James Sheridan Knowles famous quotes

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