Authors:

Sound Quotes - Page 17

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.93, Courier Corporation

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

Donald E Westlake (2011). “Drowned Hopes”, p.36, Overamstel Uitgevers

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.94, BookBaby

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

1962 Of Aneurin Bevan. Aneurin Bevan 1897-1945, vol.1.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow