Best 3266 quotes in «sound quotes» category

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.

So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?” Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________.” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

Someone gave me Roman Candle from Cavity Search when it came out. I was just starting to do A&R in the record business, and I remember being in my Volvo 240 in Silverlake, which is every bit the cliche it sounds like, sitting in front of my house playing the songs over and over again. It was the punkest record I had heard in so long.

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.

Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.