Sound Quotes · Page 117

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

— A. E. Housman

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

— Joseph Brodsky

I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

— Steve Diggle

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'

— Craig Zadan

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

— Thelonious Monk

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very…

— Jenny Hval

I feel like it took artists like Pimp C and Andre 3000 with 'International Players Anthem' - I feel like it took…

— Tay Keith

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical…

— Aphex Twin

Billy Jones, positionally, is unbelievable. He's not the fastest guy but he makes up for it by being positionally sound, so I…

— DeAndre Yedlin

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still…

— Richard Wagner

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly…

— Marvin Olasky

Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off…

— Ian Frazier

I picked up the phone to call the police, but then I considered how it would sound when I told them that…

— Jenny Lawson

To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make…

— Charles Shyer

One of the things that I loved about when I met my husband was that he picked me up and he paid…

— Sutton Foster

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect.…

— Martin Scorsese

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary…

— Isaac Asimov

Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well,…

— Maria V. Snyder

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like…

— Nick Cave

The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested…

— Alan Tower Waterman

To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free…

— Morton Feldman

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

— Kathy Burke

I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq.

— Hunter S. Thompson

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

— Jerry Lewis

I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as…

— Frankie Boyle

I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

— John Diefenbaker

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

— Anonymous

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

— John Eldredge

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

— Goldie

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

— Anna Kamienska

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

— Alexandra David-Neel

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

— Robert Fripp

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

— Giovanni Ribisi

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like…

— Betty White

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

— John Mellencamp

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

— Johann Johannsson

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

— Juvenal