Sound Quotes · Page 102

Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

— Nicky Whelan

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

— Bertie Carvel

I know how I look like. I know how I sound. I know how I walk. I'm just gonna be me. I…

— Caster Semenya

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

— Tim Bishop

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

— Warren Farrell

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

— Lisa Su

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

— William Lashner

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

— Taylor Hawkins

I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a…

— Esther Rolle

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me.…

— Ray Charles

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to…

— Mark Twain

I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in…

— Taraka Larson

It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound…

— Bjork

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a…

— Paul Weller

Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be…

— Bun B

I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came…

— Richard Dawson

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the…

— Jodi Picoult

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected…

— Benjamin Franklin

As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are…

— George Saunders

There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et…

— Agnes Varda

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free…

— Anonymous

I might not have the best flow, sound... but when it comes to wordplay, cuz, come on bro.

— Blueface

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.

— Edward Hirsch

The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!

— Phoebe Bridgers

I think that every record has its own life and a different sound.

— Claudio Simonetti

You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.

— Roswell Rudd

It may sound simple, but both winning and losing can become a mind-set, and I won't accept losing - ever.

— Scottie Pippen

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

— Barbara Kruger

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

— Diane Abbott

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

— Rick Riordan

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and…

— David Lynch

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

— Norah Jones

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

— Anonymous

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

— Thomas Ferguson

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

— Jim Gerlach

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

— Benjamin Zander

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

— Jon Stewart