Sound Quotes · Page 53

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

— Bonnie Tyler

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

— Thomas Fuller

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

— John Mayer

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really…

— Rick Nielsen

I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it…

— Hillary Clinton

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends…

— Augusten Burroughs

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on…

— Anonymous

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom…

— Jesse McCartney

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the…

— Anne Frank

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

When I came up with Ethereum, my first first thought was, 'Okay, this thing is too good to be true.' As it…

— Vitalik Buterin

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that…

— George du Maurier

You just have to be professional and show the kind of courtesy and interest in audiences that they have shown in me.…

— David Essex

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that…

— Hooman Majd

Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is…

— Jeaniene Frost

There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and…

— Anthony Standen

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You…

— Sarah Dessen

What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea…

— DJ Spooky

She, uh, came out of the closet recently, my niece. Um... She announced to the family that she's a lesbian and... She's…

— Sarah Silverman

Donald Trump has been about we, the people. I just wanted to counter that sound bite because that's part of the problem,…

— Herman Cain

When companies are trying to find a state to locate a new business or factory, they look at a number of factors…

— Ronnie Musgrove

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

— Philip Massinger

I don't want this to sound racist, but most Orientals are nonconfrontational. They'll let things slide. I'm not like that.

— LaVar Ball

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

— Charles de Lint

To be honest, I don't really like arenas. It's not easy to make the sound good, or to perform in them.

— Oliver Sykes

“Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.”

— K.L. Toth

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

— Mary Oliver

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

— H. L. Mencken

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

— Max Frisch

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

— Douglas William Jerrold

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like…

— Padma Lakshmi

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

— Tony Lema

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

— Larry Wall

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a…

— Emily Mortimer

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

— Ed Sabol

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

— Anatole France

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

— Gautama Buddha