Sound Quotes · Page 96

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

— Carrie Brownstein

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

— Alec Sulkin

And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.

— Jay Asher

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

— Nelly Mazloum

Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.

— Rick Riordan

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

— Kate DiCamillo

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

— Marianne Faithfull

When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing…

— Pixie Lott

With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?' It does.…

— Simone Elkeles

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like…

— Dan Harmon

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little…

— Chris Kattan

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into…

— Robert Baden-Powell

If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one…

— Ralph Nader

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics…

— Mike Stud

Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the…

— Wale

In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths, and do…

— Sophie

You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.…

— Chinua Achebe

The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated…

— John Green

My favorite part about my job is not that it is never boring; it is that it is always exciting. There is…

— Zoey Deutch

I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality.…

— Walter Moers

Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The…

— Roger E. Olson

I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person…

— Ellie Goulding

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

— John F. Kennedy

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

— Victoria Legrand

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

— Bryan Ferry

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

— Jerry Cantrell

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

— Margaret Halsey

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

— Ednita Nazario

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

— Phil Spector

Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

— George Ella Lyon

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

— Ray Bradbury

What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the…

— Cynthia Erivo

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

— Willow Smith

“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.”

— Adam Haslett

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

— S. D Gordon

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

— Charles Bradlaugh

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she…

— Rob Sheffield