#sounding

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#connecting #enough #hit #just #no point

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#i #like #live #pound #risk

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

#airport #grumpy #i #i can #important

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#buried #good #good movies #i #like

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#his #less #lovable #man #may

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#immediate #means #neither #ridiculous #sneeze

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#bodies #hearing #informs #motion #sounding

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#actually #always #children #come #hate

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

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#best #done #escaped #finally #first