Sound Quotes · Page 82

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

— Brandy Norwood

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive…

— Eckhart Tolle

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

— Mark Twain

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.

— David Baddiel

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

— Lewis Carroll

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

— James Ivory

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't…

— Adam Johnson

Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from…

— Caryl Rivers

The owner of one club once interrupted my set to inform me that my taxi had arrived. I don't think he meant…

— Josh Widdicombe

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood…

— Kate Morton

The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco…

— Jack Handey

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once…

— Felix Baumgartner

“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from…

— Wilkie Collins

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven.…

— Keira Knightley

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

— Marshall McLuhan

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was…

— Alastair Campbell

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,…

— Gerald Durrell

There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our…

— Suzanne Collins

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the…

— Max Beckmann

I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints…

— Stacy London

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The…

— Jonathan Demme

A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with…

— Theodore Roosevelt

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

— Charlie Flynn

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

— Muriel Spark

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

— Kenny G

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

— Justin Martyr

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really…

— Pharoahe Monch

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

— Jean Kerr

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be…

— Joel Osteen

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

— Muddy Waters

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

— Adelaide Crapsey

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

— Jon Tester

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

— Paul Simon

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

— Mickey Hart

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

— William Shakespeare

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

— Anonymous