Famous Quotes & Sayings

Molly Ivins

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Graham Swift

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

Graham Norton

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

Manolo Blahnik

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

Howard Stern

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

Hugh Jackman

I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

Rick Wakeman

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.

I don't want to say too much and sound silly.

Eoin Colfer

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

Jack Kemp

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

Gwen Stefani

If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.

Michael Connelly

I may sound facetious but I really think these stories are all interrelated and therefore really only one series.

I know it sounds crazy. But it works in the lab.

Fred Taylor

I know it probably sounds like we won a championship or something, but I feel good.

He sounds like a particularly mischievous 14 year old to me. Not too big to be put over his dad's knee, I wager.

The venue is beautiful, ... It's on a hill. From wherever you stand the sound is excellent. It also overlooks the lake.

They are going to make their breaks. You got to play fundamentally sound when you play them." ()

It's long overdue. Listing orca whales is kind of like listing Puget Sound as endangered. We have no more time to lose.

Jon Stewart

So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.

P. C. Cast

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

Paul Westerberg

Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.

Martin Bashir

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,

Philipp Meyer

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

Plutarch

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

Mike Figgis

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

George Lucas

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Ellie Goulding

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

Phil Anselmo

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

Queen Latifah

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.

Haruki Murakami

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

Hans Zimmer

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.