Sound Quotes · Page 118

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Sounds to me like he's on the toilet.

— Dana Gould

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,

— Charlie Chaplin

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a…

— Alice Hoffman

As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.

— Lindsay Lohan

Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned.

— Julian Treasure

“Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?”

— Myron Uhlberg

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

— Max Tundra

Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound.

— Oskar Fischinger

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,…

— Ken Macrorie

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or…

— Albert Einstein

Don't do anyone else's version of a hit song - it's gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do…

— Ricky Reed

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as…

— N. T. Wright

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound…

— Darren Criss

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere…

— Kenneth Turan

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to…

— Nick Kroll

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you…

— Brian Eno

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself…

— Antonin Artaud

I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound…

— Kate DiCamillo

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,…

— William Shakespeare

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music…

— Chadwick Boseman

Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can…

— Anonymous

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements -…

— Andrew Lau

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where…

— Barack Obama

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

— Anonymous

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

— Christian Louboutin

“There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.”

— Cameron Conaway

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

— Martin Luther

“They scribble on notepads, the sound of their pens scratching the judgemental air.”

— Emma Cameron

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

— Garrison Keillor

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it…

— Frankie Valli

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

— Trombone Shorty

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

— Jackson Browne

Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in…

— Alan Jay Lerner

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

— Paul Simon

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

— Kabir

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

— Johann Johannsson

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

— Jon Secada