Sound Quotes

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

-I'm going to kill the kid. - Barrons says faintly. Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bodly laught. -Get in line

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

There was a scene cut out of Big Fat Liar where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success.

When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of the mantra and become absorbed in it.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot help but smile.

We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I like that sound of that,” Alexander said, hugging her tighter.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.