Sound Quotes

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

Creed's sound is my sound.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows the sound of my heart from the inside.

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.