Sound Quotes

"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. "
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
-Voltaire

"Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers."
-Plato

"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
-Thomas Jefferson

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."
-William Shakespeare

"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."
-William Shakespeare

"Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language."
-Dale Carnegie

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
-Douglas Adams

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
-John Locke

"I don't sound like nobody."
-Elvis Presley

"Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?"
-Janis Joplin

"My Birthday! what a difference sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears."
-Thomas Moore

"You'll also notice the audience and the performers are in the same room. That gives the sense that the sound comes directly to them. Acoustically, it's a much different type of experience than many people have had a chance to try."
-Joan Squires

"We've come a long way. I don't want to sound braggadocio, but the team has matured so much since then."
-Craig Swartout

"We are pleased that the judge's ruling recognized the sound business judgment and the sacrifice of everyone at Delta. We need to move forward with the restructuring of the company."
-Dan Lewis

"They sound stressed. They don't sound like they're having a good time."
-Ben Wedeman

"The discipline of singing early music has a special sound -- (it's) very clear."
-John Poole

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world."
-Peter Ustinov

"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
-Thorstein Veblen

"[He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. You get this kind of amplified electric acoustic sound."
-Wally Ingram

"If you understand the science, there is no magic to this. It is based on sound science and engineering. ... There are no smoke and mirrors here."
-John Donoghue

"First of all, it is based on sound physical principles, and secondly, it finally answers the 150-year-old question of what causes the 11-year sunspot cycle."
-David Hathaway

"It's gotten a lot more sophisticated. There's more money in it and more money to hire people. And you're taking a lot of young guys who aren't as fundamentally sound because they're either coming out of high school or they've been in college for only one year."
-Jim Brewer

"Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day."
-Alfred Edward Housman