Sound Quotes · Page 45

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

— Isaac Asimov

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

— Skepta

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

— Jill Abramson

Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done.

— Riff Raff

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

— Roscoe Mitchell

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

— Bram Cohen

First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

— Richard Branson

...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute...

— Tom Stoppard

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off…

— Keith Emerson

For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on…

— Ann Aguirre

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive.…

— Bodhidharma

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

— Mahira Khan

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have…

— Mike Huckabee

Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out…

— Ryan McGinley

But I will say that Harve Presnell... he was one of those guys who, when you're standing in a room with him...…

— Tony Hale

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way…

— David Byrne

Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of…

— Alexa Ray Joel

Now, I am a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their shoes,…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You…

— Jens Lekman

Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and…

— Deepak Chopra

I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until…

— John Irving

In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The…

— Jonathan Alter

You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books…

— Christopher Paolini

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

— Michael Greger

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at…

— Bob Newhart

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

— Charles Olson

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

— Yanni

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

— Louise Erdrich

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don’t have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

— Rachel Caine

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

— Liza Minnelli

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

— Henri Nouwen

I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.

— Bill Pullman

I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what…

— Dave East

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

— John Prine

Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'

— Rory O'Malley

“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.”

— Hanya Yanagihara