Sound Quotes · Page 75

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

— Stendhal

How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

— Amanda Palmer

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

— Erykah Badu

I have songs that sound like this and songs that sound like that. I think it's just my vocal that keeps it…

— Joshua Ostrander

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

— Sampha

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

— Francesca Annis

It may sound like showing off, but I am good in communications and in creating harmony.

— Park Won-soon

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All…

— Thomas de Quincey

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long…

— H. G. Wells

I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be…

— Bill Murray

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what…

— Marianne Faithfull

A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as…

— Anuj

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic…

— Miroslav Vitous

I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so…

— Zaytoven

In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and…

— Paul Merton

That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It…

— Samantha Stosur

There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very…

— Justin Vernon

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it.…

— Teju Cole

The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,…

— Julian Baggini

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking…

— Tryon Edwards

The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally…

— Leonard Read

I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the…

— John Anderson

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

— Levon Helm

“sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.”

— Haruki Murakami

A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

— Elton John

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

— Groucho Marx

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

— H. L. Mencken

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

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

— Q-Tip

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

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

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

— Tony Martin

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

— Mike Johanns