Quotes with sound

  • If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
  • As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
  • One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
  • The plum tree in the yard's so small It's hardly like a tree at all. Yet there it is, railed round To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more Though if it could it would for sure. There's nothing to be done It gets too little sun.
  • Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
  • He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
  • All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.
  • 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.
  • I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
  • Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
+7

Quotes 1 till 20 of 204.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
  • Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
    - +
    +7
  • J. C. Macaulay It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
    - +
    +2
  • Thomas Jefferson A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
    - +
    +1
  • Socrates A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
    - +
    +1
  • Benjamin Booker As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Aaron Neville It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
    - +
    +1
  • William Shakespeare Life… It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
    +1
  • Bill Laswell What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ferdinand de Saussure A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
    Ferdinand de Saussure
     
    - +
     0
  • John Locke A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Paul All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.
    Billy Paul
     
    - +
     0
  • Brian K. Vaughan All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
    - +
     0
  • Norman Mailer America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Donald Sinden An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
    Donald Sinden
     
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • C. C. H. Pounder Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
    - +
     0
  • André Gide Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
    - +
     0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
All sound famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors