Sound Quotes

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the wood. If tone comes off the neck, you can bet it's gonna sound beautiful through an amp

First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones, it becomes a part of you.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious.

A different word usually came to my mind when I thought of Yeva, though it did sound a lot like “witch.

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.” You both sound like my mother,” I said. Shut up!” they both said in union.

But... you're still getting married?" Grover sounded hurt. "Who's the bride?" Ploypemus looked toward the boiling pot. Clarisse made a strangled sound. "Oh, no! You can't be serious. I'm not-

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?” Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________.” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.

When you're on a sound stage and you're shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy.

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.