Sound Quotes · Page 80

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

— Alexander Payne

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

— George Harrison

The ultimate onomatopoeia of truth is a word that makes no sound.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

Radio or no radio, I just like the way records sound when the drums and vocals are loud.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I never want to stay stagnant, but also want to stay true to myself and true to my sound.

— Laufey

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

— Dashiell Hammett

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise…

— Marni Jackson

Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the…

— Anais Nin

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things…

— Anthony Bourdain

If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends.…

— Wendy Starland

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the…

— Clive Thompson

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to…

— Megan McCafferty

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work…

— Bernie Siegel

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen…

— Moshe Kasher

This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state…

— Daniel Tosh

I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're…

— Veronica Roth

Being here by the ocean in Malibu. Living in this beautiful house that we built, that took so long to build. Being…

— Pierce Brosnan

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The…

— Megan Abbott

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English,…

— Gene Simmons

Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish…

— Madison Smartt Bell

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

— Gogen Yamaguchi

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.

— Tony Robbins

Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

— Cam Newton

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

— Douglas Adams

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.

— Mac Miller

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

— Richard Peck

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that…

— Robert Englund

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

— Jonah Hill

Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.

— Nicholas Hammond

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

— John Zorn

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

— Michael Gira

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

— Albert Einstein

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

— James Laughlin

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

— Philip Levine