Sound Quotes · Page 117

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

— Anonymous

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

— Roman Jakobson

Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.

— Kumar Sanu

Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name... ..DJ Abraham Lincoln

— Demetri Martin

“How important could the sound it made be, if no one was able to hear it?”

— Michael Lewis

You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.

— Prodigy

This is going to sound bad, but it's not hard to be super mean. It's actually really fun to play a mean…

— Josie Totah

I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

— Maya Hawke

Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of…

— Marquis de Lafayette

We need to tap into new issues. There's a way to resurrect the sound policies of our party, but also to look…

— Andrea Tantaros

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at…

— Bonnie Raitt

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems…

— Peter Asher

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in…

— Rachel Zoe

Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and…

— Argus Hamilton

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's…

— Keith Jarrett

Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music…

— Dalton Trumbo

I don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In…

— Maria Brink

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in…

— Moby

What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And…

— Alan Greenspan

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those…

— Ada Lovelace

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Let us not remain anchored in the quicksand of a waning past, and lose the war on obliviousness, but let us listen…

— Erik Pevernagie

Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem…

— Thomas Hardy

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

— Trent Reznor

The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

— Mark Twain

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

— Peter Porter

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

— Brian Williams

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

— Louie Schwartzberg

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

— Kin Hubbard

Our sound is really hard metal but looks cute, and in some parts of the song the lyrics are really cute.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real.

— Rush Limbaugh

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

— Lillian Hellman

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

— Taylor Hawkins

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

— Elmore Leonard

“And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...”

— Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of…

— Edith Wharton

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

— Alexander Hanson

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

— Suzi Quatro

Not to sound arrogant but I've worked with everyone I've always wanted to work with.

— Neeti Mohan