Sound Quotes
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Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.
Nick Carter
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I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.
Ali Banisadr
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I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.
Sophie McShera
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I must admit that when I chose the name, 'vitamine,' I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.
Casimir Funk
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
Seneca the Younger
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I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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The breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!
Anne Bosworth Greene
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It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'
Melissa Fumero
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I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.
David Longstreth
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Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'
Adam Faulkner
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What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.
Wangechi Mutu
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I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually - the physicality, the gestures, the walk - for me.
Mercedes Ruehl
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Somewhere outside there was the monotonous thud of a basketball on concrete, some lone player practicing free throws. A suburban sound carrying a ghostly resonance.
Alexandra Sokoloff
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It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
E. M. Forster
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
A. J. Liebling
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O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.
Charles Robert Maturin
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You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
Barack Obama
