Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Crais

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.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Victoria Jackson

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

Victoria Azarenka

I don't really care how I sound.

Victor Borge

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

Renee Fleming

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.

Tiesto

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

Ronald Reagan

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

Rumi

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

Rumi

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

Roland Barthes

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Roland Barthes

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Sonny Rollins

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

Robert E. Howard

Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

Steve Lacy

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

Stephanie Laurens

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

Sophocles

As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

Stephen Malkmus

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

Stephen Malkmus

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Stan Getz

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...

Sophie McShera

I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

Stephen Hopkins

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

Philipp Meyer

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

Keith Jarrett

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

Stan Freberg

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!

Thomas B. Macaulay

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Thomas Beecham

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.