Sound Quotes · Page 91

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

— Ed Sabol

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

— Anatole France

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

— Gautama Buddha

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

— E. M. Forster

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

— Billie Letts

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

— Julian Treasure

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

— Stephenie Meyer

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

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

— Jack Kemp

My radio's loud like a fire alarm: The floor vibrates, the walls cave in, The bass makes my eardrums seem thin. Def…

— LL Cool J

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become…

— David Ayer

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or…

— John Lasseter

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if…

— John Lydon

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is…

— O. Winston Link

Use she, he, it, one, they. You could call me mow mow, and I honestly don't care. A pronoun is just a…

— Rain Dove

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press?…

— Holly Johnson

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that…

— Anonymous

Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument,…

— Laurence Equilbey

The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about…

— John Kao

Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself,…

— Yoshi Wada

I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I…

— Sophie Thompson

One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is…

— Stan Lee

Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want…

— Jimmy Tingle

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

— Chris Martin

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

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

— Mason Cooley

I used to be mad, at first, that I couldn't sound like Ice Cube. And I think that was probably one of…

— Boots Riley

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

— Bobby Abreu

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

— James Vincent McMorrow

SILENCE: A State Where Almost NO SOUND Is Made. The Thoughts You Always Want To AVOID Are HEARD in The Silence.

— Pacifiersucker

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Not to sound too hippie, but I work so much off of energy. I'm a Pisces, and that's part of who I…

— Jaimie Alexander

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

— Austin Kleon

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

— Voltaire

So why then has all my life made no sound and are your eyes closing even now? My life made no sound…

— Chevelle

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

— Enrique Iglesias

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

— Dick Cavett

There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.

— Cindy Chupack

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon