Quotes with sounds

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  • Bernard Malamud She entered his dreams sane and left mad. She began with words of love and ended with sounds that frightened him.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Anatole France The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William Shakespeare The man that hath no music in himself; nor is not move with concord of sweet sounds; is fit for treasons stratagems, and spoils.
    The merchant of Venice (1597)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Tom Stoppard The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Anne Rice The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Albert Camus The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Andy Rooney The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • B. B. King There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bill Bailey This is the news theme, but it sounds like pure Hollywood entertainment. It sounds like E.T. on a horse being chased by Darth Vader, which is something I'd love to see.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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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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  • Ellen Glasgow Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Kin Hubbard Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bernard Malamud Usually when he forgot words he would wait for them to seep back into consciousness like fish drawn up to the hungry surface of a stream. He would remember the initial letter of the forgotten word or sense sounds in it; soon the word reappeared in an illumination.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Mark Twain Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry Block We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
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  • Branford Marsalis We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Burt Shavitz What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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