Quotes tagged ‘sound’

“In other words, we hear our own voice but we don’t hear it the way people around us do—so it’s jarring when we hear the way it does actually sound to others.”

— Vogue, Emma Specter, vogue.com

“Imagine if New York City noise came to your phone in a text message? It would be the most obnoxious group text message ever.”

— Chris Castiglione, hackernoon.com

“Grinch: That's a noise... Narrator: Grinned the Grinch... Grinch: That I simply must hear! Narrator: So he paused—and the Grinch put a hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low...then it started to grow.”

— Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle, Narrator / The Grinch (voice), Boris Karloff, imdb.com

“Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying.”

— Pink Floyd, open.spotify.com

“This country is to me a sound.”

— U2, open.spotify.com

“Bart, having never received any words of encouragement myself, I'm not sure how they're supposed to sound, but here goes: I believe in you.”

— Jeff Martin, Jon Vitti, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of th…”

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

“The only sound I hear, the only sound in the entire world...is my heart beating.”

— Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“You know that sound when the ketchup bottle falls against the cabin you just closed? That's the sound of someone else's problem.”

— ArcaneGalaxies, reddit.com

“What I like most about music is when it sounds like music. [...] I really like music when it’s quite clear and simple.”

— Nilüfer Yanya, interviewmagazine.com

“My girlfriend accused me of cheating on her.. I told her that she was starting to sound like my wife...”

— 420-Neal-It, reddit.com

“I find myself walking softly on the right undergrowth beneath the trees, not wanting to crack a twig, to crush or disturb anything in the least--for there is such a sense of stillness and peace that the wrong sort of movement, even one's very presence, might be fest as an intrusion, and, so to speak…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“"R' is among the most menacing of sounds. That's why they call it 'murder' and not 'mukduk'”

— Dwight Schrute, imdb.com

“What is an onomatopoeia? Exactly what it sounds like.”

— Mechanikatt, reddit.com

“Music is ancient, part of what it means to be human.”

— Wren Graves, consequenceofsound.net

“I would have paid money to listen to Chris Cornell sing the phone book.”

— Jason Benefield, twitter.com

“Literally no reason for anyone to sneeze loudly in a crowded place. You can temper that ish.”

— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com