Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

Yo-Yo Ma

Nobody else can make the sound you make.

Winston Churchill

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

Zadie Smith

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

Yolanda Adams

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.

Warren Buffett

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

Kendrick Lamar

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Keith Jarrett

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Laura Prepon

Free love sounds great.

Kylie Minogue

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

Robert E. Howard

Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

Tom Odell

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.

Tiesto

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

Ronald Reagan

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Rumi

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

Rumi

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

Roland Barthes

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Roland Barthes

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Sharon Creech

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Taylor Swift

There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing.

Tony Bennett

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Stephen Hopkins

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

Renata Adler

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Tilda Swinton

I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.

Victoria Jackson

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

Victoria Azarenka

I don't really care how I sound.

Victor Borge

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.