Sounding Quotes

265 Sounding quotes by 230 unique authors

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity. — Marilyn vos Savant
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. — Gene Tierney
The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written… — Eddie Vedder
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether… — Vera Wang
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.”… — James Patterson
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides… — Megan Whalen Turner
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. — Jeanette Winterson
I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do… — Sarah Dessen
I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting… — J. R. Moehringer
...But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for… — Charlaine Harris
Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever… — Meg Cabot
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb… — Jack London
Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And… — David Foster Wallace
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',… — Florence Nightingale
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models… — Warren Buffett
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty… — Barbara Mertz
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz… — Robin Hobb
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for… — Franz Kafka
It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and… — Kathi Appelt
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they… — Neal Stephenson
The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming… — J R Ward

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