Sound Quotes · Page 123

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

— Khaled Hosseini

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

— James Altucher

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the…

— Fisher Ames

My sound is a mix between pop, hip-hop, and R&B. It's a good collaborative effort of all three.

— Bazzi

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins

I feel like they say the upstate western New York sound is the gritty sound.

— Benny the Butcher

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

— Stephen Hawking

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

— Iris Murdoch

Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to…

— Michel Faber

The political classes are despised when they deal in sound bites, embrace tokenistic campaigns and feather their own nests while trying to…

— Ann Widdecombe

I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive…

— Lisa Genova

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths,…

— Noel Gallagher

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time…

— Mark Twain

I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street…

— Yohji Yamamoto

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my…

— Talib Kweli

You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to…

— Holly Black

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot…

— Charles Bukowski

I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have…

— Johnny Marr

I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep…

— Jay Baruchel

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life…

— Sarah Vowell

Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that…

— Van Jones

My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier…

— Rita Dove

Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my…

— Donald Hall

I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.…

— Adam Savage

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

— Evelyn Glennie

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

— Joan Smalls

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

— Chet Faker

For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.

— Jessica Simpson

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

— John Betjeman

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

— Brian Reitzell

The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

— Jack Paar

The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.

— Pauline Oliveros

To win BBC's Sound of 2018 was a huge honour. A lot of my favourite artists have won it before.

— Sigrid

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

— Edmund Burke

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

— Giorgio Moroder

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

— Demetri Martin

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

— John Constable

You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how are things on Planet You Wish?

— Meg Cabot

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

— Arnold Jacobs