Top 100 Sounded Quotes
#1. Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max
Clive Cussler
#2. You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
Simon Cowell
#3. Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest.
Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard one.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#4. BREATHE by Annabelle Wolf: "'Sometimes, it looks like you're so worried you forget to breathe,' Troy said calmly. I was about to tell him everything when a sharp knock sounded on the door. We both jumped.
Annabelle Wolf
#5. Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
Nigel Kneale
#6. I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. She said the wrong thing or sounded like a space alien with bad programming, when all she wanted was to be just like everyone else. I meant are you okay now,
Susan Mallery
#8. Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.
Michelle Madow
#9. The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.
Cassandra Clare
#10. Her receding laughter sounded so comforting, so alluring to my senses that I could hardly control myself from reaching out to her and telling her what I felt there and then!
Faraaz Kazi
#11. Having random sex the way Tania did sounded kinda ... hollow. I didn't want to live in a Hollowland.
Jess C. Scott
#12. One French guy at a bar wanted several of us to "faire le parachutisme." He said it was easy, you just jumped out of a plane. It sounded very exciting but no, thank you. He said "I'm not a homo." I said it's not a question of whether or not you're a homo, I just don't want to jump out of a plane.
Nicholson Baker
#13. What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.
Robbie Williams
#14. 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
#16. Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.
Rick Riordan
#17. You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised.
"Yes."
"That's ... crazy, Sookie.
Charlaine Harris
#18. Language is the continuation of coercion by other means."
"Bullshit. It's cooperation." Both theories explained what had happened plausibly. I resisted, because it felt trite, saying that they weren't as contradictory as they sounded.
China Mieville
#19. If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire.
Shannon Hale
#20. And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.
Vladimir Nabokov
#21. Um, I'm just going to go tell Zeb hi really fast." Somehow saying hi had never sounded so much like "strip naked and fuck on the bar.
Jay Crownover
#22. Wait a minute." Daddy sounded amused. "What do you mean 'we'? I thought this was my treasure."
"Technically, I don't think that's possible anymore." Mommy sounded smug. "We're mated, married, and as I just realized the other day, we have no prenup.
Thea Harrison
#23. The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain
in the world had found a voice
H.G.Wells
#24. 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
#25. Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.
Rebecca McNutt
#26. Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips. She took his face in her hands, finding his eyes blazing, his breathing as ragged as her own
Sarah J. Maas
#27. Too late I realized this sounded like a come-on. Yeah,Hayden, he would say,I want you to show me some-wink-stretches!-nudge nudge.
Jennifer Echols
#28. So you fixing to turn farmer on me?" "I'm fixing to do what it takes to win her. And now I come to think on it, right before we met Tamsen, that day in Morganton, weren't you the one talking about planting more corn, getting that cow? Sounded to me like you were the one thinking on turning farmer.
Lori Benton
#29. Smaller increment. Often, the best way to make the increments smaller is to start with seemingly trivial cases. "I need my class to put one name/value pair into a HashMap," I thought, which sounded like it would do the trick. Step 2: Red Bar. The next step is to write the test
Anonymous
#30. The main thing I sense is...darkness." As soon as the words were out I realized how awful they sounded, so I rushed to clarify, "But it's not a bad darkness. It's more like a warm-summer-night kind of darkenss, not the monster-under-the-bed kind of darkness.
Kristen Day
#31. His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.
Anne Ursu
#32. You screamed." Will said. "Is that all you did?"
"I screamed a great deal." Tatiana sounded injured.
Cassandra Clare
#33. He was singing a hillbilly song that sounded half like a love song and half like a hymn.
Flannery O'Connor
#34. The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.
Kelly Creagh
#35. I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.
Patricia Briggs
#36. She was taken to St. Mungo's, where," the Headmistress now sounded slightly perturbed, "a standard diagnostic Charm showed Miss Granger as a healthy unicorn in excellent physical condition except that her mane needs combing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#37. Crying. Milo was crying. It was a soft, muffled sound, but Jason's ears were quite powerful and the house was otherwise quiet. It sounded something like sobs and something like a dog's throat-whine. Aw. Hell.
Eli Easton
#38. You sounded down on the phone yesterday. You can talk to your old dad about anything, you know. Except boys. And bras. And that Bieber fellow.
- Dad
Jenny B. Jones
#39. Sometimes, Kate was downright astonished by how much the women in the faculty lounge sounded like the little girls nattering away in Room 4. It
Anne Tyler
#40. I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing.
I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell.
As i love you,"He told me.
Stephenie Meyer
#41. This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.
Lee Child
#42. You are not showing her my baby pictures!" He sounded horrified, which made me laugh.
"Come on, Evan," I teased with a laughing smile, "you were adorable.
Rebecca Donovan
#43. Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?
Jay Asher
#44. They sounded a lot like me and my old girlfriend Loretta, but I swore to myself that I would stop thinking about her ass, even though every Cleopatra-looking Latina in the city made me stop and wish she would come back to me.
Junot Diaz
#45. He can surround a sword with flames."
Freya sounded proud of him. That irritated Ena. He was her prisoner and only she had the right to feel proud of him as far as she was concerned.
Terry Spear
#46. She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of a real heart?
Jen Wylie
#47. I think there's a real hunger for people speaking truth to power. Like, there's a little minority now that's saying you sounded like an asshole and a whiner. But that's just the player-hating fringe. I wouldn't worry about it.
Jonathan Franzen
#48. Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
Thomas Frank
#49. Living in Olympia, we had lost perspective on what a traditional group looked or sounded like; band configurations were abnormal, either multi-limbed or conspicuously amputated.
Carrie Brownstein
#50. When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
Irvine Welsh
#51. In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.
Stephen Kinzer
#52. We don't escape our pasts, you know," Madd said. He sounded defeated. "Never. We can never escape what we are."
"Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.
Tali Spencer
#53. I don't know how to talk to people anymore." Her voice sounded muffled, as if she were wiping her nose. "Yeah, I noticed. You're like a walking Internet comment, just spewing whatever pops off the top of your head. You can't do that with people in real life.
Emma Scott
#54. Most of us find our own voices only after we've sounded like a lot of other people.
Neil Gaiman
#55. Advice his father had given him years before sounded in his mind: "In most of what you face, son, you'll make it through if you don't give in to panic." He
William W. Johnstone
#56. Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
Benny Blanco
#57. He gasped in terror at what sounded like a man trying to gargle while fighting off a pack of wolves.
Douglas Adams
#58. He sounded absolutely miserable. Are you ever going to speak to me?
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. I guess I'm the perfect match, then, for a girl who likes to visit a cemetery." He drew out every syllable so that it sounded like a love song.
I closed my eyes, savoring those words. "A perfect match," I murmured. "My other half.
Jessica Verday
#60. Roderick Morgenstern, who Magnus thought truly deserved to have a name that sounded like a goat chewing gravel, stood up happily to continue his speech.
Cassandra Clare
#61. His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John
Mary Doria Russell
#62. But Lord! once one began mouthing words
aloud, how silly they sounded!
Virginia Woolf
#63. She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble
Kate DiCamillo
#64. Don't you have a class this morning, Georgie?"
Day mumbled something that sounded like
"Ancient History of the Near East and Greece."
"Poof!" scoffed Everhart, flourishing his fork,
"Come with me and see the Near East.
Jack Kerouac
#65. 'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.
Peter Hook
#66. A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
Bernard Ramm
#67. Hmm," I said. "Nuisance" at least sounded affectionate. My wife had been alternately terrified of or furious with me.
Ashley Gardner
#68. To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
Richard Hofstadter
#69. Ben told me that Tom had just spoken on the mobile to Alice and according to Tom she didn't say anything about falling over at the gym and she sounded "Just like Mum except maybe ten to fifteen percent grumpier than usual." I think he's learning percentages at school right now.
Liane Moriarty
#70. 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
#71. The monster made him do it. It lived in the woods, and this was its home, and it would speak to you only in a whisper that sounded like your own echo.
Megan Miranda
#72. The last time he'd had a ride this rough, there was a set of twins involved. "You okay?" Torin's voice in his military surplus PCU sounded distant. Flat. "Rough ride," he growled without relaxing his jaw. "You're thinking about the twins, aren't you?" "Might be." That had sounded more like Torin.
Tanya Huff
#73. Behind the semi-elliptical bar four cowboys who had never been near a cow sang western songs which sounded as if they had originated in the far east.
Ross Macdonald
#74. Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.
Tess Gerritsen
#75. Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them
we're Animorphs."
"Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked.
"Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said.
"Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.
Katherine Applegate
#76. Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?
Jodi Picoult
#77. What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Alphonse De Lamartine
#78. I mean, he did say vagina, didn't he? And if he did, then how come it sounded so exciting? Vagina is pretty much the least exciting word in the world. It's something your doctor says to you shortly before he invades it with what looks like a weapon from our robotic future.
Charlotte Stein
#79. Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked like a fucking model. What man could ever forget that?
Christina Lauren
#80. He liked the way his laughter sounded with theirs. It was a sound he had never heard before: not mingled laughter - he had heard that lots of times - but mingled laughter of which his own was a part.
Stephen King
#81. She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should be.
Katherine Rundell
#82. I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. "Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs."
"And yet," he said softly, "you're risking everything to help me.
Kate Avery Ellison
#83. Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
Michael Gove
#84. University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.
Nora Sakavic
#85. 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
#86. Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family ... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.
Simone Elkeles
#87. She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is,' and she sounded proud. In that moment I forgot my hunger and I forgot my fear.
Neil Gaiman
#88. It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!
Odeya Rush
#89. Forgetting the cameras would be next to impossible. And oozing love? That sounded like an industrial accident.
Heather Hansen
#90. He always called me Daughter. It was to distinguish me from his sister Ava. I loved being called Daughter. It sounded so possessive, and to be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved.
Ava Gardner
#91. The mole dug its way deep, deep down, under the foundations of the wall. No magical alarm sounded, though I did hit my head five times on a pebble.
Once each on five different pebbles. Not the same pebble five times. Just want to make that clear. Sometimes you human beings are so dense.
Jonathan Stroud
#92. About how their song had never sounded so sweet.
And of the man who held her.
Of how it felt as if he was the home she'd never had.
Juliana Stone
#93. A tyrant needs no real reason for what he does, Quellion said. He was a young man, but not foolish. At times, he sounded like other men Spook had known. Wise men. The difference, then, was one of extremity. Or, perhaps, timing?
Brandon Sanderson
#94. Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal.
Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.
Maureen Johnson
#95. His voice had sounded as though he lived entirely on mayonnaise and butter but never quite cleared his throat of them;
Dean Koontz
#96. If I sounded like Joanna Lumley, I'd never shut up!
Michele Deppe
#97. I kind of liked his voice. He sounded like he had a cold, you know, like he was about to lose his voice. "You talk funny," I said.
"Allergies," he said.
"What are you allergic to?"
"The air," he said.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#98. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.
Eugene O'Neill
#99. The beat reminded me of some of the stuff that Tracy listened to, the stuff that sounded like robots having angry sex in the middle of a disco.
Charles Colyott
#100. God, they sounded like two solicitous Victorians talking about sex.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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