Sounds Quotes

2120 Sounds quotes by 1659 unique authors

The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.… — Robert Pinsky
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this… — Carl von Clausewitz
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us… — Roger Scruton
Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand,… — Yanni
But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a… — Matt Labash
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts,… — James Agee
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the… — Michel Hazanavicius
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships… — Vernon Howard
Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather… — Andy Summers
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only… — Wilfred Trotter
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really… — John Prine
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. — Elmore Leonard
It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned.… — Nick Faldo
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and… — James Gleick
I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I… — Yohji Yamamoto
When a child's life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people, and places, he will learn. When he feels safe and loved, he'll… — Sandra Dodd
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while… — Holly Johnson
I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to… — Susannah McCorkle
You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice… — Skitch Henderson
The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because… — Pat Martino
This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot… — Torrie Wilson
This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. — Torrie Wilson
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can… — Karla Kuskin
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to… — Larry Brilliant
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds. — William Christopher Handy

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