Best 3266 quotes in «sound quotes» category

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

Pay attention to the sound of words.

PE is the sound of naked defiance.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.

Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se. It's become a completely different thing. And it's not just simply an effect. It's just a very surprisingly intuitive thing.

Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Pikachu. 'Pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse.

Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah, but did it taste better?

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.

Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?

Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds.