Sound Quotes · Page 92

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

— Anne Bernays

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

— Tom Kenyon

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that…

— Jack Kevorkian

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

— Victoria Monet

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side

— Molly Ivins

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

— Roman Jakobson

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

— Lil Pump

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too…

— Suzanne Collins

I don't want to be categorized as a this type of rapper, or a 'Some Type Of Way' sound, or a 'Walk…

— Rich Homie Quan

I don't want to sound like a dictator but I don't seek too much opinion from players. That's not to say I…

— Eddie Howe

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people.…

— Kiese Laymon

This may sound corny, but I really admire my husband, Vivek Deora, as a businessman because I am amazed by how he…

— Maneet Chauhan

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me.…

— John Dieterich

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature…

— Warren Beatty

“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now…

— Anonymous

Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When…

— Justin Vernon

It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper…

— Lars von Trier

I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be…

— Andrea Modica

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and…

— Jay Kay

If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I…

— Debbie Harry

I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I love wildlife, and I enjoy riding. You always know when there's a horse coming, from that clip-clop sound, but you don't…

— Joanna Lumley

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much…

— Kirstin Maldonado

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

— Benjamin Disraeli

It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

— Michael J. Sullivan

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

— Tom Waits

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

— William Shakespeare

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

— Tim Allen

I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

— Analeigh Tipton

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

— Flannery O'Connor

I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

— George Washington

I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

— St. Lucia

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

— John Milton

King Kofi Kingston. The initials are horrible but the name sounds great.

— CM Punk

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

— Nigel Short

I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.

— Bob Iger

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

— Chuck Yeager

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

— Betty White