Sounding Quotes

265 Sounding quotes by 230 unique authors

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I — Talisa Soto
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
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,… — Unknown Author
One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name. — Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is… — Tony Iommi
Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because it’s hard to keep up the lie! ‘Cause you… — Chris Rock
I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding. — Michelle Branch
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same… — Frank Sinatra
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide… — Douglas Adams

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