Sound Quotes

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was just that feel, that sound.

Pikachu. 'Pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse.

I can't help what I sound like. What I sound like is what i am. You know? I cannot be anything other that what I am.

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

2001 King of the Ring? I really like the sound of that! That REEKS OF ROYALTY! So begins the ERA OF AWESOMENESS!

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.