Sound Quotes · Page 94

I'm always thinking of ideas and sounds. I am waiting on something new and dope to inspire me.

— Kid Ink

I think it's so fun that my art isn't centered in one sound or rooted in one lane or whatever. It's just…

— Bree Runway

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

— Emily Carr

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not…

— Hernando Cortes

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

— Rumi

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

— William Cowper

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?

— Derek Walcott

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

— Robin Williams

Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one,…

— Anthony Trollope

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who…

— John Lahr

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good…

— Doug Martsch

The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it…

— Pat Martino

Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria,…

— Laura Osnes

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

— Sigmar Gabriel

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a…

— Fede Alvarez

The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience.…

— Nick Lowe

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in…

— Hildegard of Bingen

It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it…

— Deb Caletti

Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's…

— Veena Sud

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here…

— Ali Banisadr

Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from…

— Jonathan Raban

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such…

— Albert Einstein

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

— Robert Fripp

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

— William Wordsworth

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean…

— Adam Carolla

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...

— Stan Getz

When you're 29 and divorced, that certainly doesn't sound pretty.

— Carly Pearce

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

— William Monahan

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

— Joseph Jarman

American accents often sound much more confident than British ones.

— Rebecca Front

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

— Juvenal

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

— Jamie Lidell

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

— Laura Riding

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

— Johann Johannsson

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

— Robert Fripp

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

— John Mellencamp

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like…

— Betty White

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

— Giovanni Ribisi