Sound Bite Quotes

#1. Paleo is not a diet. It's not a fad. It's not a rigid set of rules to follow. It's not a sound bite. It's an exploration of history, nutrition, the human diet, and, most important, our health.

Liz Wolfe

#2. Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Douglas Hurd

#3. I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

Bill Ayers

#4. When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

Kirk Cameron

#5. Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

Phil Klay

#6. She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. "Sometimes I really want to" - a frustrated sound - "bite you!"
He froze. "I might let you."
"I won't do it if you'd enjoy it.

Nalini Singh

#7. Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Emily Blunt

#9. In a world that values the primacy of work, the most common question that we ask and get asked is, "What do you do?" I used to wince every time someone asked me this question. I felt like my choices were to reduce myself to an easily digestible sound bite or to confuse the hell out of people. Now

Brene Brown

#10. I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

Marina Sirtis

#11. It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

Lee Strobel

#12. I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

Mike Huckabee

#13. Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

Tina Brown

#14. The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

Darrell Hammond

#15. Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Paul Theroux

#16. Apparently the police were hot on the trail of the Tamiami Butcher. There were no specifics available, but Captain Matthews got a lovely sound bite. He made it seem like he would personally make the arrest as soon as he finished his coffee.

Jeff Lindsay

#17. When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

Juan Williams

#18. A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

Jack White

#20. I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

Kristen Stewart

#21. Instead of thinking deeply, or letting an idea simmer in the back of the mind, our instinct now is to reach for the nearest sound bite.

Carl Honore

#22. [I]gnorance was never an obstacle to a good sound bite.

John Connolly

#23. I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

Genevieve Gorder

#24. The challenge of a journalist is to condense a thousand thoughts into a single sound bite. The challenge of an author is to place a simple idea on a canvas as infinite as your imagination. No doubt about it. I have the easier job.

Charles A. Cornell

#25. The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Matthew Collings

#26. I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

Clark Durant

#27. Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

John Steinbeck

#28. Not for the first time, I wonder if Drew Evans is the devil - or a close relation. I can picture him offering the fastingChrist a loaf of bread and making it sound completely acceptable for him to take a big ole bite out of it.

Emma Chase

#29. Not me. I like my first jolt of caffeine to come from a Coke. And from a can, not a two liter bottle or fountain drink. There's a giddy pleasure in popping the top and hearing the fizzing sound. And that initial bite of caffeine from the morning's first swallow. For me, that's heaven.

Kelly Miller

#30. If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

#31. Aragon felt a shudder run through him at the sound, a strange cold thrill; and yet it was not fear or terror that he felt: rather it was like the sudden bite of a keen air, or the slap of a cold rain that wakes an uneasy sleeper.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. I personally really love food. But I even annoy myself when I say something like "Oh, I like burgers," because I sound like one of those girls. The ones who say, "I love pizza!" Bullsh*t. You don't love pizza, you love a bite of pizza

Chrissy Teigen

#33. I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

Mark Rubinstein

#34. A growl rumbled behind us. "Could you not touch her?" Ren didn't make it sound like a question. "Bite me," Shay snarled. "Stop it. Both of you.

Andrea Cremer