Sound Quotes · Page 87

I fill my business emails with smiley faces and question marks so that I don't sound too severe.

— Betty Gilpin

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

— Mark Twain

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

— Raghuram Rajan

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds…

— Rian Johnson

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is…

— Bill Shankly

Some will say I don't sound like past mayors or look like them or think like them, and I say yes, I…

— Maya Wiley

We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn't sound that great.

— Charlotte Caffey

Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the…

— Roy Wood

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing.…

— Brian Eno

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and…

— William Howard Taft

Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40…

— Joan Rivers

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he…

— Anonymous

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years…

— Dave Grohl

turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall,…

— Ken Kesey

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had…

— Lester Flatt

Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try…

— Robert Plant

I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man,…

— Jake Owen

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

She smiled. "I need your opinion," she said. "What do you think about something sleeveless for this weekend? With a cinched waist…

— Nicholas Sparks

Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum…

— Terence McKenna

I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for…

— Tony Kushner

I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and…

— Berton Braley

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

— Walter Huston

I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

— Washed Out

“And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough…

— Sarah Dunant

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

— Ellen Glasgow

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where…

— Robert Crais

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'

— Jessica Williams

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

— Ludwig von Mises

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

— Henry Paulson

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

— Don Meyer

When you hear bacon cooking…that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking…that's applause.

— Jim Gaffigan

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no…

— Gerald Brommer

Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.

— Miles Davis

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

— Jim Elliot

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

— Elmore Leonard

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

— Anonymous