Sound Quotes · Page 118

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

— Laura Riding

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

— Jamie Lidell

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

— Ronald Reagan

Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is…

— Daniel Humair

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out…

— Jane Kenyon

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make…

— Grieves

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

— Ralf Hutter

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

— Gore Verbinski

I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard…

— Laura Osnes

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very…

— Susan Estrich

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a…

— Roy Blount, Jr

I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the…

— Kenny Florian

There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might…

— Maynard Webb

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and…

— Anatoli Granovsky

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take…

— Terry Riley

Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time…

— Summer Sanders

Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is…

— Catherynne M. Valente

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Albert Einstein

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as…

— Laura Esquivel

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but…

— Edward Abbey

The first time we did it [voice-over], I was trying to use my face and my eyes more so and really portray…

— Elle Fanning

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it…

— Mike Gordon

“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;…

— Wilkie Collins

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of…

— George Orwell

It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.

— Ashton Sanders

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

— Robin Williams

By fusing R&B with a U.K. garage sound, you can create energy. 'Fill Me In' showed me that.

— Craig David

The sound of silence, when you realize that you have no kids… ha ha ha...

— Anonymous

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

— Beth Ditto

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

— Nigella Lawson

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

— Oscar de la Renta

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into…

— Peter Guber

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

— Kate DiCamillo

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

— John B. S. Haldane

I guess Oshie does sound a little better than naming your pet Smith or Johnson.

— T. J. Oshie

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she…

— Rob Sheffield

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

— S. D Gordon

Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

— Willow Smith

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye