Sound Quotes · Page 57

Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

— Francis Chan

I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

— Dianne Reeves

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

— Q-Tip

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo.

— Lauren Mayberry

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

— Glenn Miller

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

— William Faulkner

Might sound crazy but I just left the private plane, promoter paid 100 k and I ain't even stay the whole day.

— Wiz Khalifa

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those…

— Jimmy Page

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight…

— Lester B. Pearson

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the…

— Anonymous

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody…

— Buddy Rich

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth;…

— Mark Twain

I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper…

— Mandy Harvey

I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote…

— Anonymous

And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment,…

— Philip Pullman

Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound…

— Maria V. Snyder

Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to…

— Patrick Ness

We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound…

— Patrick Wilson

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true,…

— Adolph Rupp

What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it…

— Yann Martel

Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels…

— Sophie Kinsella

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

— Placido Domingo

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam…

— Cherie Currie

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

— William Bennett

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

— Mike Johanns

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

— Tony Martin

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

— Andre Gide

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.

— Brooke Fraser

Led Zeppelin is what made me buy my first electric guitar: the Jimmy Page guitar sound.

— King Diamond

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

— Wallace Stevens

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a…

— Samuel Butler

My mother dropped a dish on the floor one day and the sound made me collapse.

— Melody Gardot

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

— John Barbirolli

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds…

— Brian Jacques

This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for…

— Taron Egerton

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe