Sound Quotes

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak. (Albert Einstein)
Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. View quote
W. H. Auden
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. View quote
Norman Mailer
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. View quote
Voltaire
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. View quote
George Jean Nathan
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. View quote
Agnes de Mille
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. View quote
Jean Kerr
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. (Norman Mailer)
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
George Orwell
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. View quote
Isaac Asimov
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. View quote
George Gissing
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. View quote
Angus Young
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. (Alfred Hitchcock)
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. View quote
Walt Whitman
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. View quote
Eduard Hanslick
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. View quote
John Locke
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. View quote
Augusten Burroughs