Sound Quotes · Page 56

I love my mouth guard. I love how it makes me sound like a baby.

— Esther Povitsky

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot…

— Martin Freeman

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

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

— Charlie Chaplin

I really should not need to spell this out, but one of the attributes of a successful sniper is that he makes…

— Nicholas Soames

I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring.…

— Louis J. Halle

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence,…

— Ian Mcewan

Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A loving…

— Robert Herrick

I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why…

— Flea

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just…

— Max Lucado

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

People forget the skates are like knives. Those blades are constantly sharpened... that's why they sound the way they sound. They are…

— Phillip Schofield

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he…

— Mary Pickford

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the…

— Neil Gaiman

I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to…

— Iggy Azalea

“Sissy realigned her own posture, and another creak was issued. Sissy's creak followed Jelly's creak down the hall of sonar eternity. Sounds…

— Tom Robbins

You can meditate on almost anything: a prayer, song, image or word. Close your eyes; sit in a comfortable position. Take a…

— Dean Ornish

The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought…

— Kristin Hannah

“Truthfully some of my favorite music can only be heard outside through the natural melodies that live on the tongues of birds,…

— Ayesha Ophelia

When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in…

— Adrienne von Speyr

'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

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

— Dana Gould

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

— Julian Treasure

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

— Lindsay Lohan

“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

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

“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

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