Sound Quotes · Page 48

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

— Nicholas Sparks

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot…

— Martin Freeman

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

— Mark Twain

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

— M.C. Beaton

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

— John Rosemond

I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.

— DJ Premier

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

— Will Rogers

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it…

— Veronica Roth

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now…

— Ryan Gosling

I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion.…

— Kevin Moffett

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and…

— David Hackworth

As hideous and dumb as it sounds, I wouldn't be at all surprised by an invasion of Iraq on September II. I'll…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when…

— Jack Kerouac

To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to…

— Gary Allan

Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house…

— Michio Kushi

I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I…

— Nick Lowe

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far…

— Chinua Achebe

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type…

— Benjamin Booker

If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and…

— Cuthbert

Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It…

— Daniel Lanois

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had…

— Giorgio Moroder

Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

— Lewis Carroll

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

— Murray Rothbard

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

— Gloria Swanson

Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.

— Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

— Haruki Murakami

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

— Christian Louboutin

I'll just try to stay the same, make sure I'm fundamentally sound, especially defensively.

— Xander Bogaerts

If you suck, you're gonna suck real bad, and if you play well, it's going to sound really good.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

— Margaret Halsey

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.

— Jim James

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.

— Walt Disney

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

— Robert Powell

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

— Catherynne M. Valente

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

— Kaytranada