Sound Quotes · Page 99

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

— Emanuel Lasker

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

— Walter Savage Landor

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.

— Alexandra Petri

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound…

— Ben Nicholas

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3.

— Brian Eno

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid…

— Justin Timberlake

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

— Roger Daltrey

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by…

— Dick Dale

I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk…

— Augusten Burroughs

[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites…

— Barack Obama

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether…

— Demosthenes

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience…

— Vir Das

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's…

— George Harrison

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times…

— Kate DiCamillo

When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light,…

— Bill Viola

I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking…

— Libba Bray

Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing…

— Lewis Carroll

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that…

— Flying Lotus

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…

— Wilfred Trotter

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth:…

— Alexandra Adornetto

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and…

— John F. Kennedy

If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and…

— Mary Ritter Beard

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.

— Bobby Jindal

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

— Blake Mycoskie

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely…

— Frank Schaeffer

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

— Anonymous

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

— Rudyard Kipling

Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

— Josh Groban

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

— Chris O'Dowd

The radio is too soft, anyway. That's why you can hear five songs in a row on the radio, and they'll all…

— Inspectah Deck

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

— Dr. Dre

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his…

— John Newton

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

— Alex Scally

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

— Alfred P. Sloan

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and…

— Gloria Gaither

Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

— Jon Stewart

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

— Princess Shikishi