Sound Quotes · Page 103

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound…

— Deontay Wilder

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

— Louis Tomlinson

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

— Louis MacNeice

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

— Bob Dylan

If you're mimicking my style - or sound like me in any way - you're just letting people know you love Brat.

— Da Brat

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but…

— Taylor Swift

I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll…

— David Nicholls

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand…

— Pascal Mercier

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the…

— Seung Sahn

You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound…

— Vito Acconci

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere…

— Tod Machover

Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has…

— Frank Gehry

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't…

— Pippa Middleton

Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest…

— Murray Rothbard

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

— David Lee Roth

Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour…

— John J. Raskob

She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but…

— Virginia Woolf

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has…

— Paul Johnson

I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the…

— Glenn Branca

What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other…

— William Irwin Thompson

How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe…

— Prince

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters…

— Cliff Martinez

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent…

— Lucas Papademos

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

— Og Mandino

I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.

— Cassandra Peterson

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.

— Matt Redman

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

— Kenny Chesney

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

— Thomas Paine

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

— Anonymous

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

— Julia Holter

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

— Bethany Cosentino

If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

— Gary Rydstrom

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

— John Ruskin

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

— Michael Moss

I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.

— Neige

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are…

— Edward Abbey

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

— Anonymous

It might sound cowardly, but I do agree that if you speak out about the casting couch, it will end your career.

— Ileana D'Cruz

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

— Brian Williams