Sound Quotes · Page 112

“Sounds are three-dimensional, just like images. They come at you from every direction.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.

— Erma Bombeck

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

— Walter Scott

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

— Thomas Hood

My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.

— Jessica Chastain

The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common…

— Joanna Baillie

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go…

— Albert J. Nock

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

— Travis Scott

If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand…

— Douglas Coupland

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have…

— Charles Bukowski

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh -…

— Audrey Niffenegger

We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started…

— Taraka Larson

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix,…

— Ronnie Wood

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the…

— Hannah Arendt

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think…

— Bobby McFerrin

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It…

— George S. Patton

I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound…

— Steve Coogan

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people…

— Joe Meno

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what…

— Evan Bayh

Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific…

— Peter Garrett

It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow…

— Melissa Etheridge

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He…

— Libba Bray

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of…

— Tory Lanez

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

— Lou Reed

If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back…

— Pilou Asbaek

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

— William Stafford

I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever…

— Mike Tyson

I might sound pompous but I practically refuse at least a film or two a day.

— Arshad Warsi

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

— Hugh Hopper

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

— Seneca the Younger

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

— Pat Summitt

I have a goal to reach, a way I want my voice to sound, and until I get there, I won't feel…

— Tevin Campbell

Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.

— Eugene Louis Faccuito

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

— John Lydon