Sound Quotes · Page 88

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

— bell hooks

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

— Darrell Hammond

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

— Karl Kraus

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

— Wynton Marsalis

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

— Richard Bach

Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

— David Eddings

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

— Jonny Lang

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has…

— George Eliot

A lot of the people that I play with are electronic-based, so there isn't a direct physical analogue between what they're doing…

— Z'EV

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the…

— Anne Dudley

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know,…

— Eminem

I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible…

— Judi Bari

If the players go Christmas shopping, it's not ideal preparation. It may sound silly, but having to fight off the crowds in…

— Steve Coppell

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to…

— Juice Newton

The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to…

— Lawrence English

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look,…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback…

— Aaron Copland

The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in…

— Harold Monro

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing…

— Edmund Burke

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,…

— John Keats

Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to…

— Tom Hanks

The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you…

— E.D. Baker

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

— Andrew Bird

I learned how to be a smart, tough, fundamentally sound football player.

— Danny Amendola

The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

— Patrick Lencioni

You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

— Maureen Johnson

Bundu is a very good fighter. He's experienced and technically sound, but he can be awkward.

— Errol Spence Jr

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

— Santan Dave

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

— Sara Bareilles

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

— Bob Dylan

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

— John R. Levine

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

— Gayle Forman

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

— T-Pain

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

— Traci Lords

You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard.

— Stephen Colbert

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.

— Rudyard Kipling

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

— Mignon McLaughlin