Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

Alexander Graham Bell

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

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Different
  • Unique

• With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Song
  • Technology
  • Sound

• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Sound
  • Security

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Me

• My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Elements

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Sound

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • May
  • Forget

• When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Me
  • Government
  • Sound

• The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Energy
  • Sound
  • Stage

• I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Better
  • Sound

• I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Sound
  • Go

• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
  • Director

• "Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mean
  • Trust
  • Things

• If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Live
  • Night
  • Me

• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Dog
  • Kindness

• Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Sound
  • Mechanism
  • Density