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Quotes About Sound

About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up in period costumes or anything like that. I'm very aural. When I'm working, I try to soak up the sounds of an era.
~ Tom Reiss
Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.
~ James Roosevelt
I use a progressive alarm that makes a soft sound at first and then progressively gets louder. But I usually wake on the first sound, so it doesn't disturb my wife. When I used a loud alarm clock, I was more likely to hit it on the head and go back to sleep.
~ Edwin Catmull
'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.
~ Jon Landau
I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
~ Tiffany Hwang
I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.
~ Joe Trohman
People even describe the way I speak as sounding like gurgling with broken glass. Some people can't stand me; they hate my voice.
~ Richard Quest
CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.
~ Glenn Danzig
'Yeezus, ' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.
~ Trent Reznor
This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.
~ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest like a hurricane, with the force to topple trees.
~ Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke
I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds.
~ Miriam Toews
Ona's laughter is the finest, the most exquisite sound in all of nature, filled with breath and promise, and the only sound she releases into the world that she doesn't also try to retrieve.
~ Miriam Toews
We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra. Breaking waves. Whipping wind. Falling rain. Squawking birds. All throughout the universe, time resumed and nature sang.
~ Mitch Albom
I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it.
~ Mitch Albom
Suddenly it was terribly quiet, as if the earth itself were too stunned to breathe. I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it. Frankie
~ Mitch Albom
Everything in this world is music if you can hear it. Make a joyful noise, the psalm says.
~ Mitch Albom
It is said that the earliest spark for the telephone came when Alexander Bell was still in his teens. He noticed how, if he sang a certain note near an open piano, the string of that note would vibrate, as if singing back to him. He sang an A; the A string shook. The idea of connecting voices through a wire was born.
~ Mitch Albom
It is said that the earliest spark for the telephone came when Alexander Bell was still in his teens. He noticed how, if he sang a certain note near an open piano, the string of that note would vibrate, as if singing back to him. He sang an A; the A string shook. The idea of connecting voices through a wire was born. But it was not a new idea. We call out; we are answered. It has been that way from the beginning of belief, and it continues to this very moment
~ Mitch Albom
You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake, You're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft, You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep, You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out.
~ Modest Mouse
I hear the sound of my blood rushing out and I open my eyes to see it on the floor like ink and I watch as I end before I am empty.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Do you hear it?" "Yes," Mikal replies. "It's a battle, isn't it?" "Yes." "It's the world," one of the other men says. "The world sounds like this all the time, we just don't hear it. Then sometimes in some places we do.
~ Nadeem Aslam
Soon the house shook with Celia's snores. To Matt, the sound was as normal as the thunder that sometimes echoed over the hills. It in no way kept him from sleep.
~ Nancy Farmer