Sound Quotes · Page 44

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely…

— Frank Schaeffer

Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

— Josh Groban

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

— Rudyard Kipling

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

— Anonymous

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

— Chris O'Dowd

The radio is too soft, anyway. That's why you can hear five songs in a row on the radio, and they'll all…

— Inspectah Deck

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his…

— John Newton

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

— Dr. Dre

I don't want to sound conceited, but people were intrigued with me and thought I was crazy and the word got around…

— Bob Crane

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,…

— Yukio Mishima

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a…

— Greg Laurie

My live sound does not work in the studio, which is a completely different animal. Every little thing is detrimental to the…

— James Hetfield

When that punk strain came to Britain and infected everyone. It was more than just a sound. There was an ethos, an…

— Jim Kerr

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the…

— Ronald Reagan

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange.…

— Teju Cole

It might sound silly to some people, but if anybody wants to spend time to go out and glide on waves, it…

— Jack Johnson

Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,…

— Henry David Thoreau

... a blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led…

— Billy Gibbons

I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that…

— Butch Vig

The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into…

— Antony Beevor

Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic…

— Dale Bumpers

It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value…

— John Bunyan

A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones…

— Kendrick Lamar

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

— Carl Sandburg

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

— Emanuel Lasker

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

— Walter Savage Landor

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.

— Alexandra Petri

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound…

— Ben Nicholas

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

— Graham Swift

We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

— Mitch McConnell

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

— Heidi Julavits

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

— Norton Juster

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

— Adrian Younge

This might sound bad, but I really want to work with Eva Marie, just because it seems like that's what people want.

— Bayley

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

— Benmont Tench

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

— Alex Scally

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

— Alfred P. Sloan