Best 3266 quotes in «sound quotes» category

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

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

No, but it’s what I need to know the answer to. (Sin) Yes, Sin. I missed you. I’ve mourned for you. I’ve hated you. I’ve wanted to sic Simi on you with barbecue sauce and I’ve done nothing but think about how much I just want to hold you…and yes, I’ve missed every part of you, from that annoying little sound you make when you’re irritated to the way you hold me when we sleep. Now are you happy? (Kat) I’m delirious. (Sin)

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows the sound of my heart from the inside.

No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.

Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects that are added, there's going to be sound effects, there's going to be so much stuff that happens between this point and that finished product that it just ruins the illusion for me.

No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.

No, Simi. No food. (Astrid) ‘No, Simi. No food.’ You sound like akri. ‘Don’t eat that, Simi, you’ll cause an ecological disaster.’ What is an ecological disaster, that’s what I want to know? Akri says it’s me on hunger binge, but I don’t think that’s quite right, but that’s all he’ll say about it. (Simi)

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." She shook her head. "Don't." "What?" "Don't talk about after." "I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.

Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.