Quotes with sound-bites

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
    The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Milan Kundera The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Karl Kraus The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Veeck The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Vance Palmer The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.
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  • Ben Jonson The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
    As some soft chime had stroked the air;
    And, though the sound were parted thence,
    Still left an echo in the sense.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Peter de Vries There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Groucho Marx There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Bono There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Burton Hillis There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reason that sound good.
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  • Bria Skonberg There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Bob Kane This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Albert Einstein To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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