Sound Quotes · Page 98

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

— Christopher Smart

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

— Bridget Moynahan

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

— Tom Odell

Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success.

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

— Mary Pickford

I want to write my own thoughts and make my own music. I need to experiment with my sound and style.

— Neha Bhasin

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

— Mike Love

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

— Tucker Max

The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking,…

— J. I. Packer

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody…

— Mark Twain

I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and…

— Libby Larsen

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly…

— Bill Bryson

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases…

— Margaret Atwood

The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the…

— Frederick Lenz

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't…

— Elmore Leonard

When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block…

— Emily Rios

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the…

— Alan Watts

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to…

— Sheri Fink

'Who am I?' The answer is 'I am God'. The body comes and goes, but the Atma is permanent. The body has…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.…

— Robert Frost

So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind. Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge…

— Marcelo Goianira

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the…

— Peter Senge

[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were…

— Daphne du Maurier

I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along…

— Dale Watson

“God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound.”

— Gangai Victor

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

— Broderick Crawford

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

— Joseph Brodsky

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.

— Steve Huffman

It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

— Michael Gira

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

— Julian Casablancas

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

— Edith Piaf

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

— Thomas E. Sniegoski

“The sound of you not here rolls through me like never-ending thunder.”

— Dr. Toni Sorenson

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

— Maureen Johnson

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice…

— Cristela Alonzo

You cannot unify a church on any other foundation than agreement on sound doctrine.

— John MacArthur

I've been a huge fan of KSHMR since I first met him. He's an incredible talent and has a really cool sound…

— Hardwell

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

— Cheri Huber

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

— Carl Sandburg