Sound Quotes - Page 21

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena.

I was surprised when the ultrasound revealed that I was having a girl. I was convinced I was having a boy. And I was completely confounded by the fact that I wasn't in control of the situation; that I was being introduced to a different individual coming into my life.

Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.