Sound Quotes · Page 124

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike…

— Deanna Raybourn

I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound…

— Cuco

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

— Vivek Ramaswamy

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

— Lucinda Williams

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne

I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.

— Andy Grammer

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

— William Shakespeare

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

— Ben Gibbard

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes…

— Rob Huebel

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never…

— Nick Lowe

It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps…

— Grant Achatz

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant…

— Daniel Dennett

Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read…

— William Zinsser

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most…

— Amanda Gorman

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent…

— Michael Mann

I can be a bit of a know-all. That's been a defence since I was young. I often say: 'Oh yes, I…

— Tara Fitzgerald

It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She…

— Odeya Rush

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact…

— Daniel Barenboim

When I made 'Real,' I recorded it over the phone in prison. I did it in a week. I had no idea…

— Anuel AA

People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to…

— Thomas Frank

I think crossing into the digital age is the big move for the industry. I think it will be the biggest thing…

— George Lucas

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there…

— Mark Crispin Miller

Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

— Wesley Schultz

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

— George Bernard Shaw

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

— Zedd

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

— Arthur Koestler

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

— Jack White

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

— Patrick Rothfuss

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

— Ally Carter

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound . . . Everything is mediated through the mind.

— Carl Jung

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

— Gena Showalter

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

Europiana' isn't a sound. It's references and inspirations and the emotions they evoke.

— Jack Savoretti

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

— Peter Haggett

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

— Philip Kapleau

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

— Tom Stoppard