Sound Quotes

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

~ Andrew Galasetti

Emotional illiterates, who don’t recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. (Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them like I do.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

~ Anonymous

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

~ Janet Fitch

Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were read with coals.

~ David Ebershoff

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

~ Wilkie Collins

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

~ Julie Andrews

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

~ Joanne Harris

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

~ Howard Schultz

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

~ Douglas Adams

'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

~ Trent Reznor

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

~ Marya Mannes

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

~ Jack Nicklaus

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

~ Paul Engle

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

~ David Archuleta

The sound of my voice is more famous than me.

~ Jimmy Iovine

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

~ Matsuo Basho

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

~ Pierre Schaeffer

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

~ W. H. Auden

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'

~ Yolanda Adams

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

~ Diogenes

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

~ Iggy Pop

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

~ Robert Frost

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

~ David Guetta

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

~ Milan Kundera

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

~ Tara Lipinski

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

~ Mario Draghi

When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.

~ John Burroughs

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

~ Jim Elliot

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

~ Ted Allen

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

~ Chelsea Clinton

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

~ Tony Lema

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

~ George Lucas

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

~ Mary Pickford

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

~ Calvin Trillin

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw