Sound Quotes · Page 62

What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of…

— Alice Englert

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their…

— Anonymous

A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,…

— Rose George

Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the…

— Bruce Chatwin

I want my first son to be called 'Tommy.' It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson

— Louis Tomlinson

“Once, in grade school, our class was taken on an overnight excursion to a campground. The air was warm: we had a…

— Norma Fox Mazer

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what…

— Edith Sitwell

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

— John Harold

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping…

— Gelsey Kirkland

I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis…

— Jack Higgins

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

— Johann Johannsson

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other…

— Arlen Specter

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went…

— Z'EV

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

— Fred Hammond

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

— Jean Rhys

You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them…

— Joy Williams

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is…

— Swami Satchidananda

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

— Jonah Hill

Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the…

— Wallace Stegner

June [Hillary] had been doing all these things - the Himalayas and all the rest of it - so we had done…

— Edmund Hillary

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a…

— Paul O'Grady

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

— Ed Sabol

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

— Jack Prelutsky