Sounding Quotes

265 quotes by 230 authors

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding… — Fred Upton
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it… — Florence King
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. — Criss Jami
I never liked mellow sounding guitar. — Tom Verlaine
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. — James Herbert
Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need."… — Gloria Gaither
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. — Johann Gottfried Herder
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. — Paul Twitchell
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. — James Iha
I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much. — Julie Bowen
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other… — George Clinton
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. — Bernard Cornwell
There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late… — Graham Coxon
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle
After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. — Dave Chappelle
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. — Philip Guston
I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that. — Alan Jackson
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what… — Jonathan Kellerman
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name. — Tom Waits
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and Iâ€™m always picking up new books, and books of baby… — George R. R. Martin

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