Sound Quotes

I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...

All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

Guy on the plane I'm on has a text alert that sounds like a gunshot... And he isn't putting it on vibrate.

I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.

To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.

A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

When you're not working with the same people, you tend to sound different. Even if my personality is the same, it's reflected off different people.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.