Sound Quotes

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez.

Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died, and it looks like he might lose his job. Next thing, his truck is going to break down.

Saddam Hussein is dead, and Osama bin Laden is dead. If you’re Moammar Gadhafi, living in exile is starting to sound really good.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.

My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME..." Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?"

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Sounds good. Drive safe." He sighed, knowing I really meant, "Take care of my Mercedes.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually.

Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.

Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh my god, I sound like my therapist! Call her, she can vouch that I'm doing great.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges.

In Philadelphia, you are welcome, and that's The City of Brotherly Love. I think that makes us culturally thick and sound, so you can experience all kinds of cultural authenticity.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.