The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. Polly Berrien Berends
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. Joe DiMaggio
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. John Henrik Clarke