Sound Quotes · Page 120

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

— Nigel Short

I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.

— Bob Iger

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

— John Milton

King Kofi Kingston. The initials are horrible but the name sounds great.

— CM Punk

I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

— St. Lucia

I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

— George Washington

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

— Flannery O'Connor

I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

— Analeigh Tipton

Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention…

— Deepak Chopra

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an…

— Anonymous

If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in…

— Richard Baxter

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be:…

— Luke Hemmings

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least…

— Jeffrey Kluger

If you ask me if I’m imagining it again, I’m going to punch you out, Dead Man Walking.” Michael raised his eyebrows…

— Rachel Caine

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you…

— Conan O'Brien

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and…

— Anthony Kiedis

When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while…

— Carly Fiorina

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if…

— Agnes Obel

Being champion is just priceless. I'm not trying to sound arrogant or anything but being Olympic champ, you have every country coming…

— Henry Cejudo

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In…

— Bruce Springsteen

The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of…

— Rush Limbaugh

You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring…

— Chris Hemsworth

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper…

— Paul Halmos

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

— William Shakespeare

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

— Tim Allen

It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

— Michael J. Sullivan

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

— Tom Waits

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

— Benjamin Disraeli

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much…

— Kirstin Maldonado

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

— Lil Pump

American accents often sound much more confident than British ones.

— Rebecca Front

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

— William Monahan

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

— Joseph Jarman

When you're 29 and divorced, that certainly doesn't sound pretty.

— Carly Pearce

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean…

— Adam Carolla

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...

— Stan Getz

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

— Robert Fripp

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

— William Wordsworth

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

— Robin Williams