Quotes of: Sound-science Keyword

I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Susannah McCorkle

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

Toni Collette

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

F. L. Lucas

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

David Duchovny

Miriam: As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices.

Children of Men

General Munro: Sounds like a freak of nature to me. Mactilburgh: Yeah. Can't wait to meet him.

The Fifth Element

Tevye: [to God] It may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm not. After all, with Your help, I'm starving to death.

Fiddler on the Roof

Mr. Braddock: Ben, this whole idea sounds pretty half-baked. Benjamin: Oh, it's not. It's completely baked.

The Graduate

Cooper: Well, this little manoeuvre gonna costs us 51 years! Brand: You don't sound so bad for pushing 120!

Interstellar

Max Jerry Horovitz: Do you have a favourite-sounding word? My top-five are "ointment," "bumblebee," "Vladivostok," "banana," and "testicle."

Mary and Max

Narrator: Thus... the first sound to escape Grenouille's lips sent his mother to the gallows.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Sam Loomis: Sometimes Saturday night has a lonely sound, you ever notice that Lila?

Psycho

Harold Crick: [to Ana] This may sound like gibberish to you, but I think I'm in a tradgedy.

Stranger Than Fiction

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: 1,000 years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.

Trainspotting

Vincenzo Coccotti: We're gonna have a little Q&A, and at the risk of sounding redundant, please... make your answers genuine.

True Romance

Russell: That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.

Up

We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have.

Shane McAnally

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Will Poulter

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Clarence Day

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Ludwig Quidde