Sound Quotes - page 3

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. (Jane Austen)
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. View quote
Bob Dylan
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you The languid strings do scarcely move The sound is forced, the notes are few. View quote
William Blake
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it. View quote
Neil Postman
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound. View quote
William Wordsworth
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
William Wordsworth
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. View quote
Lewis Mumford
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. View quote
Plautus
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. View quote
Paul Dirac
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. (Christopher Hitchens)
I am a trial lawyer.... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. View quote
Mario Cuomo
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! View quote
Galen
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. View quote
M. R. James
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. View quote
Michael E. Porter
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. (Augusten Burroughs)
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. View quote
Andrea Hirata
the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love. View quote
David Benioff
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. View quote
Alton Brown
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