Sound Quotes - Page 23

• I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

  Brittany Snow

  Girl, Being In Love, Personality

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• If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Musical, Trying

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• The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

  Jean Rhys

  Sea, Rising, Rumble

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• In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Powerful, Color, Smell

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• When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Writing, Heard

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 66, 1799.

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• Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Country, Mistake, Sleep

  Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

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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 paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled. I coaxed it into the center of the city. Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! A Trans Am pulled up next to me at a light. The Trans Am was filled with high school kids. One of them stuck his head out of the passenger-side window. "Hey lady," he said. "Sounds like you got a fartmobile." I flipped him an Italian goodwill gesture and pulled the ball cap low on my forehead. (Three to get Deadly)

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Block, School

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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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