"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."

-- M. H. Abrams

#Military Quotes #Communication Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear. With equal skill, with god-like power, He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war, or guides with ease, The happier times of honest peace.”
“With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, â€˜Where is the hidden blessing?â€™ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.”
“Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.”
“No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.”

Source : David Frawley (2000). “The Oracle of Rama”, p.16, Lotus Press
“Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
“That's what I've always loved about music, that I could go be another guy for two hours. But ultimately it all comes back to: do you have the songs, can you sing them, do you have a great band that can play them with you? You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours. I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2010). “The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.316, Dell

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