Sound Quotes

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

King Kofi Kingston. The initials are horrible but the name sounds great.

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.