#sounding

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#came #certainly #chicago #cleared #come

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#anything #aside #bad #europe #islamists

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan. ↗

— Timmothy Radman

#duck #humor #sounding-board #swan #ugly

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ↗

— Scott Adams

#condescending #done #find #how #show

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#garment #god #grasp #hears #hem

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#civil #civil liberties #continues #democrats #essential

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#art #echo #fame #last #more

Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok. ↗

— Don Knotts

#come #did #make #me #nice

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. ↗

— Fred Upton

#arbitrary #based #both #bulbs #catchy

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal. ↗

— James Wolcott

#collections #detective #heads #into #labor