Sound Quotes

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.

I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.

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

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.