Sound Quotes · Page 97

I guess Oshie does sound a little better than naming your pet Smith or Johnson.

— T. J. Oshie

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

— John B. S. Haldane

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

— Kate DiCamillo

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into…

— Peter Guber

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

— Oscar de la Renta

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

— Nigella Lawson

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

— Beth Ditto

It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.

— Ashton Sanders

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up…

— Albert Einstein

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and…

— Peter Jackson

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to…

— Catherine the Great

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band,…

— Marnie Stern

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble…

— Abraham Lincoln

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to…

— Ariel Pink

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard…

— Spencer Abraham

As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I…

— Bubba Sparxxx

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's…

— Stan Getz

You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in…

— Melissa George

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself…

— David D. Burns

Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire…

— Erma Bombeck

I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows.…

— Narada Michael Walden

Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul,…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Marie-Louise Mallet emphasizes the decreased control over the experience of listening as opposed to looking: To look is to choose one’s point…

— Marie-Louise Mallet

The sound of silence, when you realize that you have no kids… ha ha ha...

— Anonymous

By fusing R&B with a U.K. garage sound, you can create energy. 'Fill Me In' showed me that.

— Craig David

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

— Robin Williams

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

— Gore Verbinski

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

— Ralf Hutter

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make…

— Grieves

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out…

— Jane Kenyon

Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is…

— Daniel Humair

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

— Ronald Reagan

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

— Joseph Campbell

Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

— Guy De la Valdene

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

— David Cook

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

— David Caruso

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

— David Levithan

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

— Morris L. Ernst

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

— Sara Bareilles