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Quotes About Sound

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
~ Alfred Thayer Mahan
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
~ Thomas Harris
I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
~ Amber Heard
I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .
~ Steven Spielberg
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
~ E. M. Forster
I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.
~ Norah Jones
My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.
~ Rudolf Steiner
I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.
~ Sonya Hartnett, Surrender
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
~ Steven Wright
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
~ Steven Wright
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.
~ Jimmy Carr
I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.
~ R.J. Palacio, Wonder
That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.
~ Bill Cosby
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.
~ Steven Wright
If you want to feel good, be rational.
~ Ayn Rand
Don't buy the toys that make the noise!
~ Denis Leary
I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.
~ Mary Hughes, Biting Nixie
A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
~ Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.
~ Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
You're starting to sound like one of those songs that DJ's play when they wanna clear out the dancefloor.
~ Alex Bergauer, The Dissolve