Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
John Legend

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
Robert Smith

Listen to the sound of silence.
Paul Simon

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Paul Simon

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean de la Bruyere

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
Iggy Pop

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
Michael Porter

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
Jessica Hagedorn

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.
Jessica Hagedorn

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.
Charlton Heston

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
Reese Witherspoon

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
Emily Carr

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
Isaac Mizrahi

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Faith Hill

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
Dick Dale

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
Vanessa Hudgens

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
George Jean Nathan

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