Sound Quotes · Page 59

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

— Danny Elfman

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

— Bennett Cerf

Rico Gear. What a great-sounding name. He sounds like a drug dealer from Brazil.

— Murray Mexted

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

— Erwin McManus

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

— Barack Obama

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the…

— Toby Jones

I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing

— J.R. Ward

I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people…

— Miller Williams

“Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something…

— Geoffrey O'Brien

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the…

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how…

— Jack Black

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make…

— Rick Warren

If you're in a situation where something horrible is happening, you're closing your eyes. You're looking away. You're doing things to try…

— RaMell Ross

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of…

— Joanna Macy

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the…

— Brigham Young

I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning.…

— Kevin Barry

Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On…

— Catherine Maria Fanshawe

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing…

— Charles Spurgeon

But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked…

— Loretta Chase

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to…

— Michael Arad

When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let…

— Brian Andreas

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit…

— Ignatius of Antioch

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and…

— Iyanla Vanzant

I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.

— Lizzy Plapinger

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the…

— Lois Lowry

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

— Emily Mortimer

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to…

— Mem Fox

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

— John Harold

You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

— Mason Cooley

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

— Stromae

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

— Donovan

Love, if you can hear this sound. Oh, just give me something, something to believe in.

— Parachute

We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.

— Nancy Wilson

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

— Iris Murdoch

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

— Philip Kapleau

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

— Tom Stoppard

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

— Warren Buffett