Sound Quotes - Page 130

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I thought we had gotten rid of that. Now not only do you have doubles, but as in Flashdance, you have triples, quadruples. From my point of view it is bad for the art.

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

It’s one thing if a person learns you’re a witch. It’s quite another if he learns you’re a murderer. I almost forget I’m a witch now that I know I’m a murderer—murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.