sound quotes

• True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. (Charles Caleb Colton) [sound/health/value]
• You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience? (Joseph Conrad) [sound/morals/care/integrity]
• The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [child/fool/sound/power]
• In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. (Harold Evans) [sound/find/more]
• Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? (Andre Gide) [sound]
• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. (Napoleon Hill) [defeat/sound/more]
• The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [sound/kiss]
• And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [silence/sound]
• The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. ( Horace) [sound]
• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. (Glenda Jackson) [essence/forget/sound]
• A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. (Thomas Jefferson) [rebellion/sound/health/government]
• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. (Thomas Jefferson) [rebellion/thing/sound/health]
• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. (Karl Kraus) [sound/order]
• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. (Milan Kundera) [sound/laughter/happiness]
• If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [angel/philosophy/sound]
• A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. (John Locke) [sound/mind/sound/soul & body]
• America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. (Norman Mailer) [america/people/sound]
• There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man. (Groucho Marx) [sound]
• Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ( Plato) [music/sound/reach/education]
• Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. (William Shakespeare) [life/sound]
• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. (William Shakespeare) [sound]
• Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. (George Bernard Shaw) [money/thing/sound/]
• I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth. (Marina Sirtis) [sound]
• A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ( Socrates) [system//sound]
• The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. (Simone Weil) [sound/language/being]
• The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. (Oscar Wilde) [life/strange/sound/pleasure]
• Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once. (Virginia Woolf) [human/method/sound/ingenious]
• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work. (Nastassja Kinski) [sound/people]
• And most bands have one particular style or sound that they do, and we have our own sound but we do a lot of different styles. (Debbie Harry) [literary style/sound/sound]
• I'm not really doing anything different this time around but I am really growing up, as a person and that just all flows with the overall sound and feel of this record. (Britney Spears) [time/sound]
• I suppose it got more of an edgy feel, a little bit more guitar-orientated and also an Irish sound, which is in 'Forgiven, Not Forgotten (Andrea Corr) [more/more/sound]

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