Quotes with sound-bites

Quotes 101 till 120 of 210.

  • Alain de Botton It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Busy Philipps It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Max Frisch It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
    Max Frisch
    Swiss writer (1911 - 1991)
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  • Anne Dudley It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • A. Cornelius Celsus Live in rooms full of light; Avoid heavy food; Be moderate in the drinking of wine; Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics; Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water; Change surroundings and take long journeys; Strictly avoid frightening ideas; Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements; Listen to music.
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  • Bette Davis Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Virginia Woolf Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benny Blanco Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Plato Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bela Fleck My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
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  • Bre Pettis My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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