Sound Quotes · Page 107

I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.

— Raymond Bonner

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

— Joanne Harris

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

— Jodi Picoult

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

— Narada Michael Walden

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

— Chase Utley

To be honest, I didn't know I carried that Memphis crunk sound until everybody told me. That's how I automatically rap.

— GloRilla

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

— Miranda Lambert

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can…

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened…

— Tom Jenkinson

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I…

— Abraham Verghese

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys…

— John Sebastian

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is…

— David Talbot

To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting…

— Josie Bissett

Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire…

— Christopher Paolini

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will…

— Chance The Rapper

My mom always says, "Pack your smile," but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo…

— Adam Richman

I know this sounds incredibly lame, but I don't want losing my virginity to feel like I'm losing something. I want it…

— Sonya Sones

If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is…

— J. R. Moehringer

There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have…

— Bruce Molsky

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the…

— Billy Wilder

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal…

— Harper Lee

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— Terry Pratchett

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then…

— B. B. King

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand…

— James Frey

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It can only sound one way with the Prodigy - vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.

— Keith Flint

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

— Mario Cuomo

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

— Ally Carter

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never…

— Anonymous

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

— Elmore Leonard

Even when a Geordie is trying to be nasty, it doesn't sound that threatening.

— Sam Fender

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

— Naomi Osaka

...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...

— William Faulkner

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

— Stephen Baldwin

The music that I really jive with is the ELO sound and maybe Wings as well.

— Joe Keery

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

— Hank Williams III

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

— Michael Palin