I can't be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So…

“As cliché as that sounded. As cliché as truth can sound. As real as truth can be.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.

— Arthur Chu

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

— Bob Einstein

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

— David Eddings

Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself,…

— Kabir

“Is this really happening?" I hear him whisper. "What?" I blink, try to stay awake. "You feel so real," he says. "You sound so…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Have you ever been in love?” “Love is for real people.” “You sound real.” “I dislike real people.” “You dislike them?” “I hate them.”

— Charles Bukowski

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.

— Bill Shankly

But when you are doing an animated voice, it has to have more energy than usual or it falls flat and doesn't work. For…

— John Leguizamo

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

— Adam Jones

… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies…

— Miranda July

“By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.”

— Paul Auster

Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you.

— Ko Joon-hee

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

— Walton Goggins

“Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea and sand:…

— Jim Thompson