Quotes with sound

Quotes 141 till 160 of 204.

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  Carlos Santana
  Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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• The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

  Burton Cummings
  Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

  Bird Johnson
   
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• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  John Mortimer
  English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

  The quotable Billy Graham (1966)

  Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

  William Faulkner
  American writer (1897 - 1962)
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• The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The most beautiful sound in the world is silence.

  R.S. Hichens
   
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• The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

  Arthur Koestler
  Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

  George Jean Nathan
  American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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• 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.

  Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv

  Bertolt Brecht
  German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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• The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

  Beck
  American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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• The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• poverty-stricken
• repercussions
• topsy-turvy
• upside-down
• skepticism
• registered

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