Sounding Quotes

265 Sounding quotes by 230 unique authors

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room. — Jordan Peele
Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those… — Peter York
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that. — Joey Santiago
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the… — Robert Treat Paine
I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words. — Ani DiFranco
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each… — Kate Bush
Tikkun Olam Repair The World is simple, powerful, to the point and so professional sounding. — Christine Lavin
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the… — Vladimir Lenin
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits… — Charles de Lint
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. — John Dryden
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. — Gore Vidal
If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real… — Louis C. K.
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it… — Jonathan Davis
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. — Dag Hammarskjold
Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is… — Kirk Hammett
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again… — Anthony Hecht
Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a… — Simon Mainwaring
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. — Terence McKenna
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. — Ian Mcewan
I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural… — Helen Mirren
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it… — Unknown Author
You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of… — Unknown Author

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