Sound Quotes · Page 111

It sounds geekish, I know, but to me, there's nothing better than the sound of a solidly hit ball.

— Morten Andersen

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

— Benjamin Graham

The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them.

— Joey Sturgis

“Spring break! Were there any two words ever put together that make a more beautiful sound?”

— Gary D. Schmidt

If you watch 'American Idol,' and you close your eyes, you don't know who's singing because they all sound exactly alike.

— Frankie Avalon

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

— Andy Summers

I've created a new sound. I've actually brought back dancing and vibes; it's more universal.

— Big Narstie

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me…

— Jose Bergamin

I feel like, a lot of times, when you have a specific sound that you want and are searching for, you want…

— Evan Ross

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string…

— John Steinbeck

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it… Dirtiness is…

— George Orwell

If pandemic theater gets mixed up with scientifically sound practices, we will not be able to persuade people to continue with the…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive,…

— Flannery O'Connor

Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt,…

— Al-Nawawi

I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and…

— Parker Young

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers'…

— Joe Perry

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the…

— George Orwell

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.…

— Susan Hill

My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to…

— Lenny Bruce

Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and…

— Sonia Braga

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their…

— Anonymous

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALL When he is born, a baby's head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference…

— Jay Woodman

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody.

— Manika

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

— Robert B. Parker

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

— Julie Andrews

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

— Karl Barth

I wanted the music to sound, like, made in Mexico. I wanted to connect to my roots.

— Natalia Lafourcade

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

— Graham Nash

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own…

— Benjamin Cardozo

If this doesn't sound too self-righteous, I want to try and inspire people in whatever small way I can.

— Michaela Strachan

This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.

— Kevin Brady

If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking…

— Gary Rydstrom

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

I don't want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.

— J Balvin

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

— Ricky Skaggs

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

— Alexis Taylor