Sound Quotes · Page 55

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

— Giorgio Moroder

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

— John Constable

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

— Demetri Martin

You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how are things on Planet You Wish?

— Meg Cabot

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike…

— Deanna Raybourn

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

— Arnold Jacobs

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

— Patrick Rothfuss

I can be a different person at different moments. I may sound chatty and friendly but that could really be a reserved…

— Soha Ali Khan

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say…

— David Nail

I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded…

— Neal Shusterman

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good…

— Jon Meacham

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound…

— Jan Schakowsky

“Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they…

— Victoria Moran

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want…

— Jon Foreman

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am…

— Rumi

Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary.…

— Jon Stewart

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends…

— Argus Hamilton

When you're a father you censor yourself. You get just as angry with a child but you don't want to say, "What…

— Bill Cosby

On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that…

— Tom Robbins

If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about…

— Maurice Sendak

I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto…

— Anonymous

Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious…

— Wayne Dyer

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

— Jack White

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

— Ally Carter

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

— William Shakespeare

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

— Wesley Schultz

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

— Ben Gibbard

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

— George Bernard Shaw

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

— Arthur Koestler

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

— Zedd

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

— Iris Murdoch

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

— Joan Smalls

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

— Evelyn Glennie

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

— Chet Faker

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

— James Altucher

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the…

— Fisher Ames

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins