Sound Quotes · Page 89

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

— Jacqueline Carey

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

— Kate Braverman

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

— George Osborne

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I honestly like any sound. Birds. I have a very broad space to accept or enjoy anything except quiet.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

— Jim C. Hines

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

— Roman Jakobson

This may sound strange, but I did not join the film industry to be a star and be successful.

— Shruti Haasan

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah.…

— YBN Nahmir

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years…

— Paul Feig

It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a…

— Doug E. Fresh

It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

— Siri Hustvedt

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry…

— Frank Moore Colby

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can…

— Harold Budd

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others…

— James Lind

It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for…

— Viggo Mortensen

You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well…

— Rob Bell

We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a…

— Rusty Schweickart

The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that…

— Tucker Viemeister

Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that…

— Temple Grandin

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early…

— Common

Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it…

— Andy Warhol

After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you…

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you…

— Colin Wilson

It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.

— Robert Manning

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

— Sam Phillips

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

— Derek Walcott

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

I always wanted to learn French or Italian growing up. I love the romantic sound of those languages.

— Riley Stearns

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done

— B. B. King

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

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

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

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

— K.L. Toth

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

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

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

— Max Frisch

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

— Tony Lema