Sound Quotes · Page 122

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

— Norman Mair

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

— James Dickey

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

— Peter Ustinov

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

— Alicia Witt

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

— Bill Hicks

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

— Jake Kasdan

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves…

— Jason Mraz

The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations…

— Louis Simpson

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an…

— Alfred Nobel

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have…

— William Congreve

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but…

— Paul O'Grady

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a…

— Mitch Albom

True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound…

— Charles Hodge

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the…

— Albert Camus

Write great songs that sound amazing if sung and played on the piano or acoustic guitar. Always encourage sing-alongs! Be prolific! Say…

— Wendy Starland

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete…

— Benjamin Graham

What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go…

— Juliette Lewis

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known…

— Petr Skrabanek

Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I…

— Courtney Jaye

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is…

— Kurt Elling

What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible…

— Gretchen Rubin

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

— Faith Hill

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

— Willie Rushton

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

— Vance Havner

I'm not gonna sound like the next person. I could respect your sound, but I could also do my own - you…

— Denzel Curry

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

— Adrienne Monnier

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change…

— Gordon Bethune

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

— Henry David Thoreau

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

— Eddie Murphy

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

— Donald Sinden

My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."

— Stewart Francis

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

— Lawrence Lessig

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

— Sue Grafton

Actors can become technically sound, but honesty always translates, even if you are not doing a lot of things on camera.

— Ishaan Khatter

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

— Dee Dee Ramone

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

— Rob Paulsen