Sound Quotes · Page 45

Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

— Jon Stewart

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and…

— Gloria Gaither

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

— Princess Shikishi

Vocally, I sound like my mom. I don't think I can help it. That's just my natural voice.

— Aubrie Sellers

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

I don't want to sound bitter about 'Sanford and Son.' I'm not. It threw me into stardom. It made me wealthy.

— Demond Wilson

Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.

— John Lindberg

I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady…

— Christopher Meloni

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because…

— Shirley Henderson

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music…

— Ornette Coleman

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot…

— Alan Jackson

Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy.…

— Win Butler

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing…

— Steven Millhauser

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real…

— Stephen Coonts

Friends comfort you in the time of need, offer sound advice and are a sounding board, are forgiving and nonjudgmental, perhaps most…

— Kenya Moore

I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever…

— Ashley Benson

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to…

— Carl Jung

I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Instead of replying, Alec reached down and took Magnus's hands. Magnus let Alec pull him to his feet, a questioning look in…

— Cassandra Clare

Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing…

— Francis Crick

No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God…

— David Platt

I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that…

— Michael Hastings

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

— Jerry Lewis

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

— Kathy Burke

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'

— Craig Zadan

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

— Thelonious Monk

I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

— Steve Diggle

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

— Juvenal

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

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

— Johann Johannsson

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

— Robert Fripp

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

— Giovanni Ribisi

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like…

— Betty White

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

— John Mellencamp

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

— Alexandra David-Neel

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

— Goldie