Sound Quotes · Page 50

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

— George Harrison

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

— Alexander Payne

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

— Gogen Yamaguchi

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

— Dashiell Hammett

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

— Douglas Adams

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing,…

— George Carey

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone…

— Cory Lidle

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling…

— Mo Rocca

We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work…

— Moby

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.” “Dorian who?” I sighed. “Just think up…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I think the hardest accent for me to do is what I end up trying a lot of times, and it's like…

— Michiel Huisman

The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx…

— Robert Pinsky

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's…

— Nicholas Sparks

I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They…

— Christian McBride

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing...…

— Alex Borstein

Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what…

— Rick Riordan

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our…

— Alice Duer Miller

Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road…

— Christopher Walken

It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; then he…

— Cassandra Clare

I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a…

— Kate Bush

Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

— Cam Newton

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.

— Tony Robbins

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

— Jonah Hill

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that…

— Robert Englund

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

— Richard Peck

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.

— Mac Miller

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

— Deepak Chopra

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

— Philip Levine

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

— James Laughlin

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

— Albert Einstein

Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.

— Nicholas Hammond

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

— John Zorn

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

— Michael Gira

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

— Eric Clapton