Top 100 Sounding Quotes

#1. You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

Moby

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#2. Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Sounding Quotes #1379406
#3. We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

Kim Harrison

Sounding Quotes #1371195
#4. Isn't he gorgeous? With those rolls, the wet-sounding grunts, bulbous wiggly tail, and smashed face - not to mention the fart the dog let out once he situated himself - he was gorgeous in a way that only a parent could appreciate.

Jeaniene Frost

Sounding Quotes #1357663
#5. What the hell kind of person was capable of sounding erudite while losing blood out of his face by the pint?

Peter David

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#6. I am beggining to realise," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir."
"That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted.
"Females are a prodigious amount of work.

Julia Quinn

Sounding Quotes #1354116
#7. I spent that whole damn day wandering around the city trying to figure out how to tell how much I loved you without sounding like an idiot.

S.C. Stephens

Sounding Quotes #1353226
#8. Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

Martin Freeman

Sounding Quotes #1351146
#9. Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sounding Quotes #1349989
#10. Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

Douglas Alexander

Sounding Quotes #1346173
#11. And I implore those who hide behind the high sounding phrase called tradition, to realise that they throw this word around only to mask their unwillingness to change
- Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt

Sounding Quotes #1342434
#12. The need to find comfort in the dark. And it was a comfort, being next to her. So I just stayed there, hearing her breath move in and out, sounding like the tide of some exotic sea.

Matt Haig

Sounding Quotes #1342181
#13. Let's get married,' he would say to her, through the hush of the hallway, his voice sounding like a dusting cloth on the first spring cleaning.

Solomon Deep

Sounding Quotes #1340014
#14. And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like ... anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Joe Meno

Sounding Quotes #1336480
#15. I just happened to be in the neighborhood, walking my dog ... " This was sounding lame. "Several miles from my home,in the middle of the night,in the snow.And I found myself in your backyard."
His eyes flew open. "With the cats?"
"If that's what you call them.

Jennifer Echols

Sounding Quotes #1336137
#16. ("This is all sounding pretty fairy tale-ish," Conor said, suspiciously.)
(You would not say that if you heard the screams of a man killed by a spear, said the monster. Or his cries of terror as he was torn to pieces by wolves. Now be quiet.)

Patrick Ness

Sounding Quotes #1330414
#17. I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

Aoife O'Donovan

Sounding Quotes #1326529
#18. Aspirin? I asked. It came out sounding a lot like ass spoon, but Zayvion seemed fluent in mumbleze.

Devon Monk

Sounding Quotes #1325235
#19. I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.

Steve Brown

Sounding Quotes #1321888
#20. Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it.

Roger Scruton

Sounding Quotes #1312268
#21. I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Bruno Mars

Sounding Quotes #1311149
#22. It comes out sounding too loud. Something about Davey makes me want to raise my voice and talk in all caps. Like, NO MATTER WHAT I'M SAYING I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I'M HERE AND VERY EXCITED.

Kathleen Hale

Sounding Quotes #1308369
#23. How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

Stacy Schiff

Sounding Quotes #1306684
#24. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

Jack London

Sounding Quotes #1302283
#25. People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

Charlemagne Palestine

Sounding Quotes #1301237
#26. Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you.

Cynthia Hand

Sounding Quotes #1300567
#27. From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

Jello Biafra

Sounding Quotes #1300308
#28. They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding ... old.

Cheryl James

Sounding Quotes #1300006
#29. The answer to my thoughts is the loud ripping of my shirt when he tears it straight down my back, yanking it forward around my shoulders and imprisoning my arms in the sleeves.
"I've got you now," he says, breaking the kiss and sounding like a god about to unleash wrath.

Poppet

Sounding Quotes #1299553
#30. Afraid of flying?" the man next to her asked, sounding displeased by the prospect. "No, just crashing and burning.

Denise Grover Swank

Sounding Quotes #1298163
#31. Run all you want, Little Monster," he said, sounding like a threat. "We're faster.

Penelope Douglas

Sounding Quotes #1293309
#32. Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing

Junior Brown

Sounding Quotes #1281021
#33. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!

Jill Conner Browne

Sounding Quotes #1278596
#34. I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

Mario Bunge

Sounding Quotes #1277983
#35. I can take a joke," she tells me, sounding insulted.
"Yeah? When?"
"When it's not being delivered by a childish jackass who thinks he's God's gift to women."
"I am not childish." God's gift on the other hand? My record speaks for itself.
"Oh, bite me."
I wish.

Emma Chase

Sounding Quotes #1272611
#36. When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

Anita Roddick

Sounding Quotes #1268936
#37. Wait, what's that sound? Oh yes, it's you, sounding ridiculous.

Roberta Degnore

Sounding Quotes #1265973
#38. Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

Arlo Guthrie

Sounding Quotes #1262485
#39. O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Lord Byron

Sounding Quotes #1260016
#40. There was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together, a black-painted poetry. It was far less hateful sounding than when he didn't swear.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sounding Quotes #1253684
#41. Cheese. Cheeeeeese. What a thin, flat, nasal-sounding word for such a luscious, rich, gorgeous thing. Hard. Soft. Ripe. Grainy. Creamy. Often stinky. I'd yet to find a cheese I didn't adore.

Alice Clayton

Sounding Quotes #1251921
#42. I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, and so tidy. Unlike real life, which is often a mess.

Heather Vogel Frederick

Sounding Quotes #1243050
#43. I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Sounding Quotes #1237764
#44. Humanities" started sounding like a disease

Svetlana Alexievich

Sounding Quotes #1231223
#45. Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Philip Guston

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#46. Even with Dream Theater, we track in a big studio and everything. But when it comes to doing leads, I don't really require a lot of studio to do that. I need a good sounding room and a Pro Tools rig, and some Neve mic-pres, and I'm good.

John Petrucci

Sounding Quotes #1220476
#47. It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

Cate Blanchett

Sounding Quotes #1218055
#48. Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

Hilton Als

Sounding Quotes #1217188
#49. Another moment or two of suffocated silence, and Hunt swallowed hard before speaking in a rusty-sounding voice. I probably shouldn't ask. But what the hell are you doing?

Lisa Kleypas

Sounding Quotes #1215430
#50. In the desert I often whisper. Junipers are excellent sounding boards. They have been shaped by wing. Rocks seem to care nothing about what I say, yet when I speak to them, they feel porous, capable of receiving my words and taking them in as part of their history of brokenness.

Terry Tempest Williams

Sounding Quotes #1214212
#51. Casey Kasem not only played the music of the stars, he also reached the sunniest-sounding celebrity on his very own. Listening to him on the radio, you could hear America smiling.

Richard Corliss

Sounding Quotes #1211094
#52. Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.

Mocco Wollert

Sounding Quotes #1203659
#53. As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts.

Julie Klausner

Sounding Quotes #1198698
#54. Winter's hard-packed snow Cedes to the fruitful summer; stubborn night At last removes, for day's white steeds to shine. The dread blast of the gale slackens and gives Peace to the sounding sea; and Sleep, strong jailer, In time yields up his captive. Shall not I Learn place and wisdom?

Michael K. Kellogg

Sounding Quotes #1195748
#55. I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.

George Lois

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#56. Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.

Jaime Winstone

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#57. There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It's always heartbreaking.

Ethan Hawke

Sounding Quotes #1184503
#58. Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

Nellie L. McClung

Sounding Quotes #1182250
#59. If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.

Roger Craig Smith

Sounding Quotes #1179417
#60. A perfect poem owes its perfection to sounding the voice of the heart and the melodies of the conscience, as well as its ability to reflect the considerations, beliefs, opinions, and horizons of thought of the poet, but not due to its formal or mental aspects.

M. Fethullah Gulen

Sounding Quotes #1177312
#61. I'm not good with speeding," said Shirley, sounding more than a little anxious. "The speed limits are there for a reason. Cars aren't meant to go fast.

Jeff Strand

Sounding Quotes #1176923
#62. If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

Conor Oberst

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#63. It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Washington Irving

Sounding Quotes #1168684
#64. Why are you so pissed off? he asked, sounding genuinely surprised. Sometimes I wondered if Dex actually had any recollection of 90% of the conversations he was involved with.

Karina Halle

Sounding Quotes #1162427
#65. I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

Jeff Tweedy

Sounding Quotes #1161092
#66. Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

Harland Williams

Sounding Quotes #1160198
#67. It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

Kate Bush

Sounding Quotes #1155117
#68. Stay back, old man. It isn't your business. This is the Prince of Vere.'
'But
I only paid three coppers for him,' said Volo, sounding confused.

C.S. Pacat

Sounding Quotes #1151414
#69. Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

Pearl S. Buck

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#70. Her voice sounding young and nearly giddy in her ears, she asked, "Are you certain, sir, you ought to kiss a housemaid?" No answering chuckle. "I have never been more certain of anything in my life," he whispered, his breath tickling her upper lip with each syllable.

Julie Klassen

Sounding Quotes #1134615
#71. My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There's a song called, Road Worn, which is about spending so much time on the road and is a lot more jazzy sounding than most of my other music.

Eliot Lewis

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#72. Wait a minute," Sandra said, sounding skeptical. "You were really stuck?"
Things were starting to get worse.
Her mouth dropped open and she began to laugh - the kind of laugh that would have been music to his ears if she were laughing with him and not at him.
Things were definitely worse.

Jennifer Shirk

Sounding Quotes #977504
#73. I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

David Foster Wallace

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#74. Did you really think he had changed? Did you really think he meant all those things he said, those sincere-sounding things, and meant them so much that he would forget about any woman other than you? But

Sierra Simone

Sounding Quotes #966288
#75. It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.

Lotic

Sounding Quotes #962682
#76. I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry

J.R. Moehringer

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#77. The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Julia Gillard

Sounding Quotes #957180
#78. I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

Dev Hynes

Sounding Quotes #955188
#79. Where'd the dog go?" I ask, sounding panicky.
"That wasn't a dog, Zara," he says, words whisper strong.
I jerk my head up. "What was it then? A cat? A gerbil? A geriatric hamster?

Carrie Jones

Sounding Quotes #952996
#80. The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Lucinda Williams

Sounding Quotes #949225
#81. In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.

Charles Teo

Sounding Quotes #945250
#82. Booya!" I shouted in pure triumph, the adrenaline turning my manly baritone into a rather terrified-sounding shriek. "What have you got for fiery beams of death, huh? You got nothing for fiery beam of death! Might as well go back to Atari, bug-boy, 'cause you don't got game enough for me!

Jim Butcher

Sounding Quotes #942647
#83. There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.

Skylar Grey

Sounding Quotes #942140
#84. Can I say I'm a reformed bad boy without sounding like a tool?

R.S. Grey

Sounding Quotes #940649
#85. Never underestimate the power of a "reasonable-sounding argument", especially to people who are not scientists.

Angelic-Demon

Sounding Quotes #932102
#86. When people would ask me what I was doing, I'd be like, 'It's a horror film.' 'What is it about?' 'You'll just have to see it.' I really didn't want to explain it because it's really tough to explain without it just sounding really ridiculous.

David Robert Mitchell

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#87. Oh my God, your dad's coming," I repeat. Without thinking, I stick my hands up the front of his shirt and use it to wipe my face. "Is that better?" I ask. "I can't believe you just did that," he says, sounding completely shocked.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

Sounding Quotes #930660
#88. I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a group, that every reaper I know is either irritable, egotistical, voyeuristic, or some combination of the three?"
"That you fit in well?

Rachel Vincent

Sounding Quotes #924738
#89. The man lay there silent and unresponsive. An unconscious man, it turned out, was a perfect sounding board for her doubts.

Bryan Costales

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#90. I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.

Cecilia Beaux

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#91. In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible ... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

Steve Reich

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#92. Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.

Virginia Postrel

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#93. Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.

Charles De Lint

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#94. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Dag Hammarskjold

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#95. Henry had a rare gift for sounding reasonable no matter what he was saying.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Sounding Quotes #864720
#96. Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Vladimir Lenin

Sounding Quotes #867848
#97. Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.

Meg Cabot

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#98. My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.

Bob Corker

Sounding Quotes #915112
#99. There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

Albert Einstein

Sounding Quotes #914698
#100. I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.

Chris Hemsworth

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