The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. – Marilyn Hacker
The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection. – Mike Johanns
I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable. – Francisco Costa
Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth – they are its precondition. – George Osborne
The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit. – Darrell Hammond
I’m not going for a soft sound. I ain’t lookin’ for a warm sound. My sound is warm, but I don’t need tubes to do it. The Randall RG-100 is the best amp for what I do. – Dimebag Darrell
Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell. – Douglas Rushkoff
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
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. – Felix Baumgartner
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut. – Dick Dale
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. – Eduard Hanslick
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. – Muddy Waters
I love working on a typewriter – the rhythm, the sound; it’s like playing the piano, which I do, too. – David Mamet
But for the first time, we haven’t made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it. – Ed O’Brien
My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge. – Dimebag Darrell
It’s sometimes better to pretend I don’t hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. – Dashiell Hammett
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth. – Daisy Berkowitz
I don’t want to sound like Ross; I don’t want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana. – French Montana
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven’t been able to get a job. – David Caruso
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. – David Blunkett