Top 100 The Sound Of Quotes
#1. It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.
Christopher Moore
#2. By day the old area of Barcelona is bustling, full of shouting, hammering, drilling and shutters being pulled up and down. You listen out for sounds.
If you want a replacement gas cylinder you wait for the sound of the delivery man hitting a cylinder with a piece of metal in the street.
Colm Toibin
#3. Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail
Kathleen Raine
#4. We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.
David Cameron
#5. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
Luanne Rice
#6. The problem is I do not want to forget. Despite all the pain, The hurt, I still want To remember you. I still want my heart To beat to the sound Of your name.
David Jones
#7. I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
Charles Darwin
#8. Justice may be blind but it loves the sound of money.
Lisa Kleypas
#9. The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Octavio Paz
#10. For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark Jr.
#11. The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot
#12. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.
Chris Martin
#13. Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks ...
Hunter S. Thompson
#14. None of us know what will make you happy. That is a question you have to ask yourself. But what I can tell you for certain is that you will have to ask yourself and get to a place where the sound of your voice is the clearest voice in the room.
Gemma B. Benton
#15. He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.
Pete Hamill
#16. We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much.
Lynn Coady
#17. Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Mina Loy
#18. It is mostly when we are very young that we take the greatest delight in the sad songs; those who have felt the real bitterness of sorrow are glad to bury it deeply away, and do not wish it wakened, as sailors' wives love a place best where they cannot hear the sound of the sea.
Angela Brazil
#19. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless ...
William Wordsworth
#20. I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
Kailash Satyarthi
#21. I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the sky, and the holy chant of the stars in their fixed rounds; it is the Holy Stream of Sound.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
#22. 'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Jon Voight
#23. Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Francesca Annis
#24. I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.
Raymond Bonner
#25. My head whips towards the sound of Breanna's sweet voice. At the corner, she waves to our English teacher [Ms Whitlock] then starts to our classroom.
Katie McGarry
#26. From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would
be.
Jamie A. Hughes
#27. The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.
Paulo Coelho
#28. He mouths something so slowly that his snarling lips articulate the sound of each and every letter, but I read them as though his silent words blast as loud as a battle cry. "Kill her!
Michelle Warren
#29. Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts.
Dan Groat
#30. Slut. I'm a dirty-
The sound of a hand hitting flesh was simultaneous with the shocking sting on her bottom. "Ow!"
"You don't think those nasty thoughts about my sumisita, Kimberly.
Cherise Sinclair
#31. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.
John Steinbeck
#32. Her voice was soft, ethereal, the sound of a lullaby half-remembered. The songs she sang, one by one, held Celaena in place. Songs of distant lands, of forgotten legends, of lovers forever waiting to be reunited.
Sarah J. Maas
#33. Hell...chickens,' Jack groused. It was the snickering that really woke me. And the sound of... Elder Jacobs.... muttering, 'Chickens?' 'Kill 'em... bastards,' Jack snorted.
Scarlett Dawn
#34. we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails.
Diana Gabaldon
#35. I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.
Emo Philips
#36. Aww, the sound of waves crashing along the ocean side and spraying back up to touch the wind only for a moment, then to fall back down becoming the ocean once more...
Melanie Kilsby
#37. I had thought of being a hermit, but she told me I was over-qualified and suggested instead a profession where I might enjoy the sound of my own voice.
Gillian St. Kevern
#38. It's well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.
Vince Vaughn
#39. And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#40. There's no melody in life that is sweeter than the sound of success and accomplishment.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#41. I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings.
Brian Bell
#42. I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating, and that's what you get when you let your heart win
Paramore
#43. I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
Tony Visconti
#44. You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.
Janina Gavankar
#45. She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.
Crissi Langwell
#46. At the sound of the word, she saw a land of pine and snow, of sun-bleached cliffs and white-capped seas, a land where light was swallowed in the velvety green of bumps and hollows - a land that she had forgotten.
Sarah J. Maas
#47. The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clouds, the colors of flowers as the seasons changed - everything around him felt changed, as if they had all been recast.
Haruki Murakami
#49. Now and again we would happen to step out of the familiar universe into a sudden sharp shock of sweetly scented air, sudden as spilled perfume, piercing as crystal, dark and sweet as the sound of oboes.
Steven Millhauser
#50. The Chief walked back to headquarters, taking his time. His gloved hands held each other behind his back. The sound of Christmas carols in his ears. And as he walked, he hummed. He'd done what he went there to do.
Louise Penny
#51. What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.
Nhat Hanh
#52. The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.
Reynolds Price
#53. The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause ... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.
Tara Brach
#54. When someone is repulsed by the sound of body noises like eating, there's a name for that. Misophonia.
Alex Dolan
#56. We won't be able to sleep without the sound of her self-loathing orgasms crying out into the night." - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#57. People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.
Elvis Costello
#58. The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
Carly Simon
#59. From somewhere comes the sound of fire: the sound of dried roses being crumbled in a fist.
Anthony Doerr
#60. Or future, experiencing the music with her, that unexpected prayer, and feeling grateful that I had set off in search of my kingdom. I lay down on the bed, and she continued to play. I fell asleep to the sound of her violin. I WOKE AT FIRST LIGHT, went to her room, and saw
Paulo Coelho
#61. His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.
Lilith Saintcrow
#62. Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.
Martin Amis
#63. There was a high scream from somewhere in Diane's house, and the sound of a mirror cracking. The refrigerator opened, and a carton of almond milk hit the floor as if it had been slapped off its shelf. (It had.) The faceless old woman who secretly lives in her home was on one of her rampages again.
Joseph Fink
#64. With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.
Andrew Wyeth
#65. Their long overdue kiss was interrupted far too soon for either of their likings.
"Well, it be about time!"
Nothing on God's earth can douse a man's ardor like the sound of his mother's voice.
Suzan Tisdale
#66. To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.
Oliver Herford
#67. From the edge of the forest where the mountains begin, a pack of sleeping wolves, huddled together in the cold, were woken. Travelling on the crystal air was a sound to fear in the night - the sound of parents calling out in anguish and loss.
A sound that would even chill the souls of beasts.
Sebastian Gregory
#68. The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.
Peter Haggett
#69. It's amazing what the sound of voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart
Colleen Hoover
#71. The song ended, but I kept my arms wrapped tight around her, not letting her move an inch. If she was having some internal battle again, she could do so in my arms.
"Watcha doing, wifey?" I joked, secretly enjoying the sound of that.
Karina Halle
#72. Eighty-two years later, the sound of her crying still haunts me. If only I had paid closer attention to why she was crying instead of simply trying to quiet her. If only I had paid closer attention.
Christina Baker Kline
#73. There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
Kate DiCamillo
#74. the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.
Bruno Schulz
#76. Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
Matsuo Basho
#77. Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.
Shunryu Suzuki
#78. Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted.
Stephenie Meyer
#79. All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
Benjamin Disraeli
#80. More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass ...
Beth Revis
#81. JASON WOKE TO THE SOUND OF THUNDER. Then he remembered where he was. It was always thundering in Cabin One.
Rick Riordan
#82. I had no idea how anyone would describe me, or what would come to mind at the sound of my name.
Sarah Dessen
#83. Tick. Tick. Tick.
This is the sound of your life running out.
Anonymous
#84. The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.
Jennifer Egan
#85. His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.
Emily Giffin
#86. There was a bird whistle as Polly neared the hiding place. She identified this one as the sound of the Very Bad Bird Impersonator ...
Terry Pratchett
#87. She would pause sometimes to listen to the sound of the water as it lightly hit the walls of the fort. This too was music to her ears; it would calm her down and give her respite from the humdrum of life
Anamika Mishra
#88. How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea ... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#89. I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
Brenda Lee
#90. If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar.
George Eliot
#91. Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.
Brigham Young
#92. How beautiful you must be
to have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away
W.S. Merwin
#93. I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
Alicia Vikander
#94. At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.
Dinaw Mengestu
#95. And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every second of every day. Then--then you feel more alone than on the day you lost her.
Desiree Banks
#96. Gates Open at Nightfall & Close at Dawn in swirly lettering, and under that, in tiny plain letters: Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated Bailey doesn't know what "exsanguinated" means, but he doesn't much like the sound of it.
Erin Morgenstern
#97. The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
Jean Rhys
#98. I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
Idina Menzel
#99. The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
John Constable
#100. I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
Ben Stein
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