Sound Quotes · Page 101

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

— Eddie Murphy

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change…

— Gordon Bethune

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

— Adrienne Monnier

I'm not gonna sound like the next person. I could respect your sound, but I could also do my own - you…

— Denzel Curry

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

— Vance Havner

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

— Faith Hill

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

— Willie Rushton

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you…

— Douglas Adams

Don’t make it sound like I laughed because I was troubled or inconvenienced or put out. I don’t want them to read…

— Eiji Aonuma

Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise…

— Maggie Stiefvater

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to…

— Thomas Dolby

Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine…

— John Barlas

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes…

— Brian McKnight

Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by…

— Scott Storch

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham,…

— John Oliver

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more…

— Butch Walker

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?…

— Neal A. Maxwell

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're…

— Carrie Underwood

When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But…

— Takashi Miike

The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular…

— Alexander Hamilton

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves…

— Jason Mraz

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

— Jake Kasdan

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

— Alicia Witt

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

— Bill Hicks

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

— Peter Ustinov

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

— James Dickey

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

— Norman Mair

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

— Iggy Pop

This is going to sound really sad. Really sad. But I've never watched a World Cup final completely.

— Weston McKennie

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

— Jimmy Carr

some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

— Jean Toomer

“I want to hear it so many times that I don't forget the sound of it…”

— N.M. Lombardi

It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.

— Apolo Ohno

You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.

— Quavo

For 'Shiddat,' I knew I had to look, feel and sound like a seasoned resident of Paris.

— Mohit Raina