Sound Quotes · Page 126

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to…

— Mem Fox

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

— Donovan

Love, if you can hear this sound. Oh, just give me something, something to believe in.

— Parachute

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

— Iris Murdoch

We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.

— Nancy Wilson

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

— Mason Cooley

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

— Stromae

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

— Brandy Norwood

Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual…

— Rudolf Steiner

Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would…

— Jason Reitman

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things…

— Judd Nelson

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to…

— James Iha

The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of…

— Brennan Manning

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

— Roger McGuinn

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American…

— Audra McDonald

Even though the Olympics take place during Ramadan, some Muslim athletes said they will not fast during games. Then, after sampling the…

— Conan O'Brien

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were…

— Nick Clegg

I personally don't think of the music as being particularly dark, though many seem to disagree as I often have to answer…

— Brian Williams

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are…

— Gail Collins

The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem…

— Ray Bradbury

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available…

— Jane Hirshfield

When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited…

— Andrew Lam

Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar…

— John Flanagan

The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

— Phil Angelides

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

— Bob Newhart

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive…

— Eckhart Tolle

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

— Stephen Malkmus

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.

— David Baddiel

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

— Mark Twain

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

— Lewis Carroll

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

— Barack Obama

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

— Danny Elfman

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

— Erwin McManus

Rico Gear. What a great-sounding name. He sounds like a drug dealer from Brazil.

— Murray Mexted

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

— Bennett Cerf

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really…

— Pharoahe Monch

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

— Justin Martyr

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips