I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and… — Libby Larsen Copy Share Image
Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against the Shia, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes aren’t… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if… — Okkyung Lee Copy Share Image
I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band,… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little… — Chris Kattan Copy Share Image
I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?' It does.… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice,… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman,… — Carolyn Jones Copy Share Image
I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
