Sound Quotes - Page 22

• I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.

  Wolfman Jack

  Bad Day, Men, Joy

  "Wolfman Jack signs off at 57", www.cnn.com. July 2, 1995.

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• Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

  LaToya Jackson

  Ocean, Listening

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• I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Real, Silly

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• A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

  Roman Jakobson

  Photography, Eras, Rays

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• Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Smart, Book, Criticism

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.407, Macmillan

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• She sounds the way bananas taste.

  Truman Capote

  Way, Taste, Bananas

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.544, Modern Library

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• It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

  Jordin Sparks

  Real, Doe, Inbox

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• As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

  Arlen Specter

  Doctrine, Matter, Lasts

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

  Eliot Spitzer

  Medicine, Politics, Rhetoric

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• The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Hate, Rocks, Guy

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• I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Crush, Names, Trying

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Support You, Editors

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• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

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• Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

  Ringo Starr

  Musical, Looks, May

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Ifs

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• I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

  Ben Stein

  Lists

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• Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

  Cat Stevens

  Inspiration, Guitar, Play

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• I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

  Rachel Stevens

  Thinking, Corny, Sexiness

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• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Disappointment, Kids, Surround Sound

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

  Tom Stoppard

  Media, Newspapers, Conventions

  Night and Day (1978) act 1

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  Barbra Streisand

  Echoes, Brooklyn, Remember

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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

  Taylor Swift

  Guy, Want, Firsts

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• I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Stress, Car

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• I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Talking, Gossip

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