Sound Quotes · Page 116

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

— Tom Verlaine

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

— Noah Baumbach

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

— David Gemmell

Kerala is not a resource-rich State. This is a big challenge. Only if you have resources, you will have sound industries.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

— Carlos Slim

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

— Louise Bogan

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like,…

— Joanna Newsom

I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like…

— Lykke Li

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as…

— Mike Gordon

The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds.…

— Joe Perry

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to…

— Doc Watson

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and…

— Coco Lee

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round…

— Allen Tate

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a…

— Edna O'Brien

I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I…

— Sarah Kay

The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they…

— Heinz Kohut

A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement -…

— Kyle Abraham

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have…

— Roy Blount, Jr

People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which…

— Lee Child

I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!" . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him…

— James Dashner

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for…

— Eric Liu

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

— Charles Lamb

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

— Kato Kaelin

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for…

— Ross Lynch

[He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever.

— Jon Stewart

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

— Dick Cheney

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

— Miranda July

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

— Katherine Hannigan

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

My name is Rain Dove, and my pronouns are just a sound. You can use whatever you want.

— Rain Dove

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full…

— Parker J. Palmer

I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.

— Emo Philips

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

— Aldous Huxley

'The Sound Of Silence' taught us that we shouldn't be afraid of pushing the boundaries.

— David Draiman

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa