Sounding Quotes
265 quotes by 237 authors
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
— Scott Adams
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
— Otto von Bismarck
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The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist.…
— Nick Cave
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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like…
— Nick Cave
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What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the…
— Michael Faraday
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The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the…
— Julia Gillard
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
— Pearl S. Buck
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I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I
— Talisa Soto
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The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
— Lana Del Rey
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The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,…
— Florence Bascom
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One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
— Albert Einstein
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He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand…
— Lauren Bacall
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Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is…
— Jacques Chirac
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the…
— James Anthony Froude
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People just didn't write songs that were so directly emotional in those days. They still don't. Part of Hank's [Williams] thing was that he was…
— Michael McCaul
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I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an…
— Tim Gunn
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But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last…
— Michael Rapaport
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I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh…
— Robbie Coltraine
Who Wrote These Sounding Quotes
237 authors contributed a total of 265 Sounding Quotes, led by these top contributors: