Sound Quotes · Page 58

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

— Lisa See

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

— Hakuin Ekaku

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

— Moby

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be…

— Joel Osteen

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

— Muddy Waters

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

— Jean Kerr

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

— Justin Martyr

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really…

— Pharoahe Monch

The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher…

— Owsley Stanley

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,…

— Basil Bunting

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like…

— LL Cool J

I'm chasing a feeling more than a sound and I try to reflect that in my turns of phrases. Growing up in…

— Tyler Childers

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will…

— David O. McKay

There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as…

— Audra McDonald

If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of…

— Julia Davis

We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want…

— Luka Sulic

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape…

— Julian Assange

The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening…

— Anonymous

I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of…

— Martin Luther

My favorite decade of cinema would be kind of the '40s, yeah. I like things in the '30s, but you know, the…

— Robert Osborne

Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is…

— Frederick Buechner

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense…

— Robert Benchley

The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains…

— Morgan Llywelyn

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

— Kenny G

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

— Muriel Spark

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

— Charlie Flynn

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't…

— Adam Johnson

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

— James Ivory

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.

— David Baddiel

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

— Mark Twain

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

— Lewis Carroll

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

— Phil Angelides

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

— Brandy Norwood

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

— Bob Newhart

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive…

— Eckhart Tolle

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

— Stephen Malkmus