Sound Quotes - Page 22

• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  Francesca Annis

  Actors, Want, Retreat

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• I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

  Fred Armisen

  Missing, Soldier, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Important, Phrases

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Philosophical, Picnics

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• I like the sound a typewriter makes.

  Paul Auster

  Typewriters

  "The mighty Quinn" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

  Erykah Badu

  Song

  "The Survivors: Erykah Badu". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 3, 2011.

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• I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

  Erykah Badu

  Beautiful, Moving, Holiday

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• Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Jesus, Important, Knows

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• The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Sound And Music, Hip Hop, Different

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• But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

  Warren Beatty

  Wings, People, Giving

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• I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

  Beck

  Mp3, Lost, Translations

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Emergencies, Scar

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• If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Thinking, Perfection

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.223, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tin, Determined, Modesty

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• Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

  Joe Biden

  Wall, Pigs, Allies

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• I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

  Rachel Bilson

  School, Next Day, Littles

  “Are You An Outfit Planner? Rachel Bilson Is!“ by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

  Ruben Blades

  Dancing, Copying, Band

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• If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

  Emily Blunt

  America, Trying, Energy

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• I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

  Emily Blunt

  Travel, Adventure, People

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• For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Climbing, Two, Differences

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• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Libertarian, Discouraging, Thrift

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

  Marc Bolan

  Rocks, Musician, Deaf

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• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  Usain Bolt

  Queens, Nice, Titles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Artist, Power

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• As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

  Bono

  Ghetto, Rocks, Hip Hop

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