Sound Quotes · Page 77

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really…

— Rick Nielsen

“Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.”

— K.L. Toth

To be honest, I don't really like arenas. It's not easy to make the sound good, or to perform in them.

— Oliver Sykes

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

— Charles de Lint

I don't want this to sound racist, but most Orientals are nonconfrontational. They'll let things slide. I'm not like that.

— LaVar Ball

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like…

— Padma Lakshmi

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

— Tony Lema

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

— Max Frisch

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs,…

— David Horowitz

People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you…

— Stan Getz

I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely…

— Ira Kaplan

It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that…

— Amy Klobuchar

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down'…

— An Na

All teams are grateful for their fans most of the time because they give you the platform to perform. It might sound…

— Edgar Davids

A big marker in my life was realizing you could record sound: I liked to make little recordings and then go back…

— Josh Garrels

I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice…

— Kathryn Stockett

I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen…

— Ray Romano

“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I…

— Gayle Forman

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the…

— Graham Greene

We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that…

— Fred Rogers

From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost…

— William Shakespeare

Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.…

— Arika Okrent

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that…

— Marc Maron

There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names…

— Craig Stone

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

— Douglas William Jerrold

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

— Mary Oliver

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

— H. L. Mencken

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

— Gautama Buddha

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

— Anatole France

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

— Ed Sabol

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

— Larry Wall

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a…

— Emily Mortimer

I don't want to sound arrogant or cocky, but taking a fight on short notice against 'Cowboy,' you have to be mentally…

— Donald Cerrone

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

— Chris Martin

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

— Granit Xhaka

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

— Stephenie Meyer

All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time.

— Julian Treasure

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

— Billie Letts

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

— E. M. Forster

I'm a YouTube star, let's put it that way!That sounds like a karaoke star with balls.

— Pablo Francisco