Sound Quotes · Page 71

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

— David Gemmell

Kerala is not a resource-rich State. This is a big challenge. Only if you have resources, you will have sound industries.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

— Carlos Slim

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

— Tom Verlaine

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

— Noah Baumbach

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

— Cher Lloyd

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

— Ron Carter

I really got into Three Doors Down - that's the sound that was out when I was 12 or 13. I really…

— Morgan Wallen

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an…

— Loren Gray

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of…

— Matthew Macfadyen

I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was…

— Jacob Collier

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film…

— Alex Winter

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of…

— Henry Hazlitt

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have…

— Laozi

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great…

— Christopher Marlowe

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement.…

— Charles Dickens

“Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by…

— Hari Kunzru

He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?”…

— William Goldman

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they…

— Miles Davis

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves…

— Edward Herrmann

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like…

— Martin Scorsese

On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun…

— Zachary Levi

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of…

— John Cage

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

— Yann Martel

For me it's liberating to write something sonically different every time that doesn't sound like anyone else.

— Raye

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

— Oscar Peterson

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

— Andrew Mellon

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in…

— Ken Kelly

I really do not have a favorite amongst Trump surrogates. They all look the same to me. They really all sound eerily…

— Ana Navarro

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

— James Hunter

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

— Yasmine Hamdan

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

— John Locke

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

— Pablo Neruda

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

— Stephen Hopkins

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

— Edward Kennedy

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

— Douglas Hurd