Sound Quotes · Page 60

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

— Derek Landy

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

— Walt Whitman

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

— DeWitt Bodeen

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound . . . Everything is mediated through the mind.

— Carl Jung

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

— Gena Showalter

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

Europiana' isn't a sound. It's references and inspirations and the emotions they evoke.

— Jack Savoretti

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

— Peter Haggett

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds…

— Carl Jung

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is,…

— Hank Azaria

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the…

— Julia Stiles

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of…

— Anonymous

Banging techno grooves from the one and only Ben Sims. Around the time of this was written he had that tribal/funky techno…

— Trentemøller

You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make…

— Rakim

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book."…

— David Toop

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the…

— Jonathan Ive

What can often happen when doing accents is that you go too far to one extreme, so it becomes a caricature. It's…

— Killian Scott

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood.…

— Janet Morris

It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.…

— Alice Coltrane

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which…

— Rene Descartes

My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.…

— Robert J. Shiller

In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us…

— Tamaryn

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.…

— Kirk Hammett

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her…

— Madison Beer

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't know if I would compare my sound to anyone because I like to think that my music is my music.

— Noah Cyrus

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real.

— Bob Einstein

I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg

— Lynsay Sands

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

— Anonymous

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

— William Shakespeare

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

— Mickey Hart

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

— Adelaide Crapsey

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

— Jon Tester

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

— Paul Simon

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

— Roger Deakins

Lataji defines the sound of Indian music, and I always had a secret desire of recording with her at least once.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.

— Alice Ripley