I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that. . . the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe. . . For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
Money is an echo of value.
If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature. . . Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.
We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber. " It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.
Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.
I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.
applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
