Sound Quotes · Page 101

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

— Tom Clancy

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

— Toru Takemitsu

I'm just picky about certain things in the videos, so I'm always switching out things that look or sound better.

— Marques Brownlee

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

— George Bailey

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

— Tom Araya

Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

— Howard Snell

Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.

— Nalini Singh

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

— Anonymous

Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be,…

— Alexander MacLaren

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

— Evelyn Glennie

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from…

— Peter Singer

I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus…

— Henry Cavill

The electric guitar's a pretty cheesy thing when you think about it, still working on those bits of wire and magnets for…

— Allan Holdsworth

“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely,…

— Rosie O'Donnell

I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with…

— Seungri

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds…

— Eberhard Weber

Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound.…

— Morihei Ueshiba

The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed…

— David Stockman

I shall not convert you at the end of my argument. I think the argument is sound. I hold that belief in…

— Cornelius Van Til

Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound…

— David Jason

And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that…

— Mary Caroline Richards

Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of…

— Jim Butcher

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said],…

— Morgan Freeman

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are…

— Ray Bradbury

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

— Steve Buscemi

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

— Nas

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

— Jean O'Leary

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

— Pam Brown

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

— Jeff Lynne

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”

— Patricia Highsmith

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by…

— John Hyams

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

— Albert Lee

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

— Ken Kesey

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

— Maulik Pancholy

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

— Taylor Swift

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

— David Lynch

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

I have been following Buddhism since 11 years now. I love the sound of chanting.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

— Joanna Lumley