Sound Quotes · Page 54

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

— Billie Letts

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

— E. M. Forster

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

— Stephenie Meyer

All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time.

— Julian Treasure

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

— Chris Martin

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

— Granit Xhaka

I don't want to sound arrogant or cocky, but taking a fight on short notice against 'Cowboy,' you have to be mentally…

— Donald Cerrone

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking…

— DJ Spooky

“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that…

— John Locke

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That…

— Bill O'Reilly

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see…

— Neko Case

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down…

— Lembit Opik

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of…

— Mark Twain

Me and most of my girlfriends have said that we would never have a boob job, but we all said that we…

— Miquita Oliver

You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune…

— Amanda Hocking

I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through…

— Panda Bear

It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology…

— Jamie Goode

The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems…

— Garrison Keillor

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend,…

— Keith Richards

I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the…

— William Stanley Jevons

The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of…

— Kim Harrison

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was…

— Nina Nesbitt

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

— Nas

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

— Dave Barry

I'm a YouTube star, let's put it that way!That sounds like a karaoke star with balls.

— Pablo Francisco

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

— Mike May

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

— Sylvia Earle

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

— Jane Siberry

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

— Anonymous

When it comes to scripts, I take a critical look at them and then sound it off with Dad.

— Naga Chaitanya

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

— Coco Lee

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

— Evan Parker

I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound…

— Cuco

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

— Vivek Ramaswamy

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

— Lucinda Williams

I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.

— Andy Grammer

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne