Sounding Quotes

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
...in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. View quote
Steve Reich
It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying. View quote
Bruce Beresford
I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. View quote
Graham Coxon
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. View quote
Gore Vidal
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies. View quote
Kevin Spacey
I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious. View quote
Michael Chabon
The sounding jargon of the schools. View quote
William Cowper
From behind the shadow of the still small voice - more awful than tempest or earthquake - more sure and persistent than day and night - is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." View quote
Thomas Hughes
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite,a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. (William Wordsworth)
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. View quote
William Wordsworth
If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake. View quote
Conor Oberst
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures. View quote
Meg Cabot
When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it. View quote
Megan McCafferty
I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez. "Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one." I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin. View quote
James Patterson
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. View quote
Sammy Hagar
I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that. View quote
Alan Jackson
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. (Allen Johnson)
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. View quote
Anthony Hecht
At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded. View quote
Chyler Leigh
There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s. View quote
Graham Coxon
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. View quote
Gene Tierney