Quotes About Loud Sounds

#1. It's not the sound itself that bothers me; it's just the fact that it's loud. The loud sounds make it impossible to hear the soft sounds and the soft sounds are the ones you have to be afraid of.

Katja Millay

#2. These were loud sounds, which were, therefore, public sounds, which, in turn, meant they were everyone's problem and, therefore, not mine. But small sounds were nearby and suggested such things as stealth betrayed, and were, therefore, pressing and personal.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Ida Belle took a pair and popped them in her ears. "She's right," she yelled. "That siren is horribly loud. Sounds like a dinosaur-sized cat wailing." I stuck one earplug in and nodded. I already needed them if Ida Belle was going to keep yelling.

Jana Deleon

#4. Double Sword Tavern." Tristan said, reading out loud. "Sounds charming and inviting.

B.C. Morin

#5. I heard the front door open and Rita hustled into the house, home from dropping the children at school. She went through the living room and into the kitchen making all the loud and distinct sounds of someone trying to be quiet.

Jeff Lindsay

#6. I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

Kathleen Hanna

#7. What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

Moby

#8. When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.

Barry S. Strauss

#9. The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

Annie Dillard

#10. Did you see any of us there?" Kassad said nothing for more than a minute. The soft sounds of the river and the ship's rigging suddenly seemed very loud. Finally Kassad took a breath. "Yes." Silence stretched again. Brawne Lamia broke it. "Will you tell us who?" "No.

Dan Simmons

#11. It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.

Richard Llewellyn

#12. The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

John Hughes

#13. I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#14. Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

Virginia Postrel

#15. Little strength it's almost impossible to push against the wind. My hands feel strange. I look at them and see that they've frosted

Walt Disney Company

#16. So much of what we experience emotionally as cataclysmic, even life-threatening, sounds utterly trivial when we say it out loud.

Susannah B. Mintz

#17. If time travel were possible we'd be inundated with tourist from the future.

Stephen Hawking

#18. While discussing the monster:
"It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass," Miss Hawkline said, "A dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud."
"I think we're going to need the shotgun for this one," Cameron said.

Richard Brautigan

#19. We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

Mike Lowry

#20. Sitting in the empty classroom and listening to the faraway sounds of noisy students in the cafeteria, I was reminded of feeling sick in class and being sent to the school nurse. The nurse's office had that same muffled sense of distance, like a satellite to the loud planet that was the school.

Maggie Stiefvater

#21. Hey, Effie, watch this!" says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean whit his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, "We miss you, Effie!

Suzanne Collins

#22. Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

James Altucher

#23. Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Chris Van Allsburg

#24. It's loud and annoying and sounds ridiculous, anyway."
"Build a bridge."
"What?"
"Get over it.

Santino Hassell

#25. Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

Steven Wright

#26. My radio's loud like a fire alarm:
The floor vibrates, the walls cave in,
The bass makes my eardrums seem thin.
Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back ...
You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac!

LL Cool J

#27. Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

Ben Chaplin

#28. sing so loud that the music
drowns out the sounds of
the naysayers.
one day they'll be singing
your song.

JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon

#29. As far as the sounds on the space station, it's pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it's generally a pretty nice working environment. It's not too loud or too smelly.

Scott Kelly

#30. Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

Tom Clancy

#31. I am happy when I am on stage. I like that wave of blue. I like the eardrum splitting sounds of loud screams. I like to be able to breathe along with the members. Each and every stage is a good reminiscence and a happy memory

Leeteuk

#32. If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

Giuseppe Venuti

#33. If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

Michael Owen

#34. Your voice is familiar," said Barry. "I couldn't place it and then I realized you sound like the guy in my dreams. Which sounds very different than I intended out loud.

Peter Clines

#35. The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

Mark Twain

#36. If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

Agatha Christie

#37. The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.

Gelsey Kirkland