Sound Quotes · Page 104

“Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.”

— James McBride

When your mind stops working, dont forget to turn off the sound.

— Vikrant Parsai

Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching.

— Hongzhi Zhengjue

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

— Ric Ocasek

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

— William T. Piper

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

— Charles D. Broad

Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

— Jane Levy

I don't want to sound trite, but we're all treading a fine line between what's normal and what's not.

— Paul Whitehouse

I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists…

— Paul Weller

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds…

— Bernard Moitessier

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what…

— Tori Amos

Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If…

— Julian Bream

Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants…

— Jeremy Clarkson

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if…

— Leo Kottke

At some point the label 'hard-rocker' began to get on my nerves, and I decided to break those chains. My music definitely…

— Gary Moore

I wouldn't say I'm girl-crazy, because that makes me sound like a bit of a womanizer. That isn't really me. But I…

— Harry Styles

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by…

— John Ralston Saul

I was scared of the original cartoon. I think I watched it once, and then I never picked it up again. I'm…

— Rachel Zegler

[My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the…

— Mac DeMarco

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called…

— Haruki Murakami

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because…

— Shannon Hoon

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something…

— Bede Griffiths

I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

— Mark White

I sound like a very old Polish cabbage farmer. Whatever, I'm hot... for my name.

— Esther Povitsky

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

— Susan Howatch

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

— Walt Whitman

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

— Anonymous

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

— Albert Einstein

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

— Greil Marcus

Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

— Ned Sublette

Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.

— James Dashner

I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself.

— Sturgill Simpson

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

— Ira Glass

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as…

— Michael Shaara

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

— Elvis Presley

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

— Alexander Pushkin

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

— Anonymous