Sound Quotes - Page 47

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.

The Government's business is in sound condition.

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

And empty heads console with empty sound.

The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not altogether useless, have far less virtue and efficacy than are commonly ascribed to them; and the want of them will never be with men of sound discernment a decisive objection to any plan which exhibits the leading characters of a good government.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.

Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.