Sound Quotes · Page 413

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

— Lewis Carroll

I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control…

— Ella Henderson

The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was…

— Olaudah Equiano

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

— Evel Knievel

If I have to choose between a Bollywood film and Pakistan film, it may sound cliched, but I will go with the…

— Mahira Khan

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

— Yanni

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be:…

— Luke Hemmings

Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.…

— Arika Okrent

I swear, there is Capitol Studios and then there's every other studio on the planet Earth. It is the ultimate, paramount of…

— Marty Stuart

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

— Howard Thurman

It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist,…

— Bill Maher

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera…

— Simon Baker

I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you,…

— Pablo Neruda

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in…

— Justin Bieber

The fact that I don't get big offers, it means that I don't refuse them. And I say no occasionally to bands,…

— Gordon Raphael

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid…

— Justin Timberlake

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

— Kevin Drew

I remember walking into a department store and you would hear an instrumental version of a Beatles song and it was usually…

— Paul Gilbert

Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

— Libba Bray

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

— Faith Hill

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

— Charles Bradlaugh

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

— Autre Ne Veut

Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"…

— Walker Evans

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse…

— Ron Chernow