Sound Quotes - Page 100

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

You ride to battle?" Karede asked. "I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

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

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

[On "John F. Kennedy" set] everybody was very interested in the accent. Even my collaborators were very curious to know if I was even going to do it. And I was, like, "You just can't not do it." I think everybody was worried that it was going to sound like the guy from... is it The Simpsons?

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.