Sound Quotes · Page 68

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

— Tom Harrell

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

— Charles Sumner

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

— David Lynch

I'm always looking to develop my sound and I'm in the studio whenever I have the time to do this. Always looking…

— Kygo

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

— David Steindl-Rast

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

— Charles Lamb

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being…

— Flying Lotus

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter…

— Thomas Hardy

The importance of human judgment does not evaporate in the future, and as connected individuals, we will have to exercise sound judgment…

— Jared Cohen

I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound…

— Will Smith

“Let's start anew. Life is goals--Purpose-Attempts--Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.”

— Eugene Mirman

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is…

— Stanley Fish

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the…

— Vaclav Havel

Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in…

— Brian Molko

However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you…

— Matt Haig

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people…

— Dick York

Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about…

— Anonymous

There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin…

— Henry Mitchell

Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit…

— Raymond Scott

The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain,…

— Dalai Lama

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

— Kato Kaelin

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for…

— Ross Lynch

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

— Louise Bogan

My name is Rain Dove, and my pronouns are just a sound. You can use whatever you want.

— Rain Dove

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

— Katherine Hannigan

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

— Miranda July

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full…

— Parker J. Palmer

I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.

— Emo Philips

[He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever.

— Jon Stewart

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

— Dick Cheney

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

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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