When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else…

There's a video that's been floating around on YouTube where [Baz Luhrmann says], "We were looking for a guy that sounded like a young…

— Quindon Tarver

“So,” Annabeth said, “What did you want to tell me earlier?” The music was playing, people were dancing in the streets. I said ”I,…

— Rick Riordan

I sounded like a fantasist at school when you'd go round the class, and they'd say, 'What do Mummy and Daddy do?' I was…

— Emily Atack

“Sometimes Carrot sounded like a civics essay written by a stunned choirboy.”

— Terry Pratchett

“She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.”

— Dennis Lehane

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

— Neil Gaiman

When the Black Lips sent a track over to me, I thought it sounded like a Beastie Boys track, the way the singer was…

— Gza

“The idea of getting high on someone else's dime sounded like the right and necessary medicine.”

— Amber Dermont

“began. They came from the bathroom, then through Kelsey’s long-abandoned bedroom, then across the kitchen floor toward us. They were slow, they were heavy,…

— Jess Breitling

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well,…

— Miles Davis

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and…

— John Green

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

— Nigel Kneale

“The way she sounds, the way she’s always sounded—like one discordant note, twisted just enough to affect the notes surrounding it, is impossible to…

— Michelle Hodkin

I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw…

— Richelle Mead

“The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots.”

— Christopher Moore