Top 82 Sounded Good Quotes
#1. Werewolves never joke about age," he said solemnly.
"Why not?"
Connor shrugged, a smile teasing his lips. "I dunno," he finally admitted. "I just thought it sounded good.
Rose Wynters
#2. Nothing that'll kill us sounded good, but Holden felt a pang for his coffeemaker. Alex,
James S.A. Corey
#3. This isn't sex."
I blinked. "Oh. Then what is it?"
"An emergency!"
I started to argue and then thought twice about it. Considering what Mircea would do to Pritkin if he ever found out about this ... Yeah. Emergency sounded good.
Karen Chance
#4. He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?
Maggie Stiefvater
#5. That sounded good," Daisy said with surprise.
"It sounded like a fish vomiting," Sarah said into the piano.
"A charming image," Honoria remarked.
"I don't think fish do vomit," Daisy remarked, "and if they did, I
don't think it would sound like -
Julia Quinn
#6. This is very creative, said Mrs. Fretag, and she began to read my essay. The words sounded good to me. Everybody was listening. My words filled the room, from blackboard to blackboard, they hit the ceiling and bounced off, they covered Mrs. Fretag's shoes and piled up on the floor.
Charles Bukowski
#7. My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
Billy Strayhorn
#8. I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. what all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.
Iggy Pop
#9. You have no idea, do you?" "No, but that sounded good when they said it on Star Trek.
Kelley Armstrong
#10. They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
Macaulay Culkin
#11. I was a jock, hardcore sports all the way down the line, but I heard that if you auditioned for this arts school, you got time off school, and that sounded good to me.
Jake Epstein
#12. All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#13. Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell
#14. Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
Janet Fitch
#15. Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good.
Trey Songz
#16. Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
Walter E. Williams
#17. Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match, but, hey. It sounded good.
Kristan Higgins
#18. I remained completely conscious of Jeremiah. He smelled good. He looked good. He sounded good. And when he ran his tongue across the salt on that place between his index finger and his thumb, I wanted to be that little spot. -from chapter Lick, Drink, Suck!, The Boots My Mother Gave Me
Brooklyn James
#19. What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
Ritchie Blackmore
#20. Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.
Cassandra Clare
#21. I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.
Alice Smith
#22. The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.
Jack McDevitt
#23. Believe me," he continued, "I want nothing more than to smite her out of existence.But I can't.Not until I have concrete evidence."
Smiting sounded good to me,but, as much as I hated it,I knew he was right. "Man,politics suck," I muttered.
Rachel Hawkins
#24. Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?
Holly Elissa Bruno
#25. I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing.
Gus Van Sant
#26. The van started as John had promised, and it sounded good, but was about as useless as tits on a turtle if we couldn't get out of the garage.
Mark Tufo
#27. Eleanor fixated on all the small luxuries strewn and tucked around the house. Packs of cigarettes, newspapers, magazines ... Brand-name cereal and quilted toilet paper. His refrigerator was full of things you tossed into the cart without thinking about it just because they sounded good.
Rainbow Rowell
#28. We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
Cynthia Weil
#29. He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck.
"He only stuttered eight times."
"That's what I mean.
Anna Gavalda
#30. It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman.
Kelli White
#31. Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.
Rivers Cuomo
#32. I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
Alastair Wood
#33. I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"
J. Robbins
#34. Why," he panted into Danny's neck, "why's it so goddamn good?" He was surprised at how full his voice sounded, so close to overflowing its steady banks.
Danny stroked his hair, his lips warm against Miller's cheek. "Because it's us, Miller," he whispered. "Because it's us.
Brooke McKinley
#35. I'd learned that when something sounded too good to be true, it almost always was.
Anonymous
#36. The style sounded like I look. What good would it do if I sounded like Sinatra? People would look at me and look at him and choose him.
Tiny Tim
#38. Just say "I'm sorry." It's not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good - if not better - in a whisper. So just say it; say "I'm sorry.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. There are no good men in this game," said Mitch. But Sydney didn't care about good. She wasn't sure she believed in it. "I'm not afraid of Victor." "I know." He sounded sad when he said it.
V.E Schwab
#40. Now, Diane, leave her alone." My father's voice sounded from down the hall and I heard his footsteps approach. Soon he was also in the doorway. He gave me a quick once-over and nodded. "She looks really good. Hopefully he'll be concentrating on the way she looks so she doesn't have to talk so much.
Penny Reid
#41. But to me it sounded like someone throwing a roll of paper towels and a can of frosting into an oven and saying, You know, I think there's a good chance of this turning into a cake.
Lisa Kleypas
#42. I always thought unicorns were made from sunshine and rainbows and good feelings. Like you just appeared one day in a field filled with flowers and a big fat sunbeam falling all around you. And there'd be butterflies or something. That sounded way pretty. And realistic for unicorn creation.
T.J. Klune
#43. Nope," I said, closing my eyes. I should probably go back to sleep. That sounded like a good idea. "I'm pretty sure it's Dean's rugged sexuality interfering with the machines.
Lily Paradis
#44. As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.
Stacy Schiff
#45. There's good news and good news. Which do you want first?" "The good news, I guess." She sounded uncertain, which was a lot better than sounding scared. "There's plenty we can do to hide this." "What's the other good news?" Harper asked. "That I want to do it."
- Trent & Harper
Scarlett Cole
#46. That sweet Texan drawl with that smooth, smoky tone, sounded so good it was as if my ears were being fucked.
Kirsty Dallas
#47. You know when you say something but you want to change in the middle? Like one time I was a bout to say take care but changed in the middle to good luck so it sounded like TAKE LUCK.. If you have any luck take care of it. Take luck you now. SHUT UP!
Brian Regan
#48. Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.
Jonathan Franzen
#49. I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.
Helen Oyeyemi
#50. God his voice sounded like pouring cream. All rich and thick and good, so good.
Charlotte Stein
#51. He waited, listening with deep enjoyment, for the end of the sonata. In the still, twilit corridor it sounded so lonely and unworldly, and so brave and innocent also, both childlike and superior, as all good music must in the midst of the unredeemed muteness of the world.
Hermann Hesse
#52. Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up.
She sounded as though she was having sex.
Good sex.
Cherry Adair
#53. These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.
Sam Altman
#54. Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.
Chloe Neill
#55. Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
Levon Helm
#56. Good Lord, even to his own ears they sounded like a pair of coconspirators being so overhearty in their enthusiastic simulation of innocence that they proclaimed themselves as guilty as hell.
Mary Balogh
#57. This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.
S.A. Tawks
#58. Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel
#59. I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there ... I wanted to make something that was for the night.
Kieran Hebden
#60. On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn't keep in touch. They're probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.
Craig Ferguson
#61. Shit," he rasped. "Too much. This is too much."
Too much what? It wasn't enough, as far as she was concerned. "I like touching you."
"No one ever touches me." He took a deep, shuddering breath that somehow sounded ... pained, and not in a good way. "Nothing but the wind and rain ever does.
Larissa Ione
#62. If one could not remember somebody's trousers, then jeans were the safe default. Indeed, "defaults" was a good name for jeans. I put on my defaults. It sounded quite right.
Alexander McCall Smith
#63. Damn, she's good."
"Of course she bloody is," Pearl murmured, her ace still stuffed against Jack's neck, even though she sounded like the prim English woman she was, her tone turning curt. "She's my mother.
Scarlett Dawn
#64. Maybe you should spend a little less time with your thing and more with your gun." "Now that sounded dirty." "Good. I hate being crass by accident.
Brandon Sanderson
#65. And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.
Judge Mills Lane
#66. I love you," he said.
"I love you too, for all the good it does." She sounded bitter. Angry. Not at him, but at the universe.
Michael Grant
#67. Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.
Cinda Williams Chima
#68. Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out - well, I nearly threw up. I mean it. I felt really sick, but in a good way.
Meg Cabot
#69. The most important lesson Louise learned a week before her ninth birthday was the hardest one to keep in mind. Sometimes what sounded like a good plan wasn't.
Wen Spencer
#70. We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.
Daniel Johns
#71. I wanted to be alone with him. Really alone. "Maybe we should take this back to my place." He lifted his head to look at me, a strange expression on his face. I let out a nervous giggle. "That sounded better in my head."
"It sounded pretty damn good out of it.
Myra McEntire
#72. Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.
Michael Carbonaro
#73. So what have I missed." Ingra asked Javal "Not much but hey I managed to reach your friend in Islette so all's good." Javal sounded nervous but why would he be nervous?
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#74. T sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.
Bill Pronzini
#75. When I was being moved, a deputy U.S. Marshal with a Southern accent so thick it sounded like he was doing a bad parody of a Good Ol' Boy sheriff laughed and said, "You're the only prisoner we ever had that got booted out of jail!
Kevin D. Mitnick
#76. I'm no good for you, Bella'
'Don't be ridiculous.' I wanted to sound angry, but it sounded like I was begging.
Stephenie Meyer
#77. Jack might look my age, but he was like a little kid on a sugar high
in need of a good spanking.
Good heavens, that sounded creepy.
Kiersten White
#78. I see you're not dead." Duncan couldn't be sure from the man's tone if he was pleased or disappointed. Mostly he sounded annoyed.
"Good to see you, too, Loghain," Maric chuckled tiredly.
David Gaider
#79. There was no way to explain to this stranger how my mental illness had just gifted me with a magical moment. I realized it would have sounded a bit crazy, but that made sense. After all, I was a bit crazy. And I didn't even have to pretend to be good at it. I was a damn natural.
Jenny Lawson
#80. It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But
Cherie Priest
#81. I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.
Adelaide Kane
#82. I will say that all it takes is one group of wrong-minded people with a bad idea that, in retrospect, sounded like a good one at the time.
Ernie Lindsey
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