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I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. (Quote by - Bill Hicks)

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. (Quote by - David Hume)

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. (Quote by - Demosthenes)

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. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)

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.' (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)

By magic numbers and persuasive sound. (Quote by - William Congreve)

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence. (Quote by - James Sheridan Knowles)

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. (Quote by - Franklin P. Jones)

The murmur that springs From the growing of grass. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. (Quote by - Sonia Sotomayor)

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. (Quote by - Lady Bird Johnson)

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing. (Quote by - Neil Young)

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. (Quote by - Sitting Bull)

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)

The sound must seem an echo to the sense. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

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