Sound quotes

“There are many sounds around us, each is slightly different. So small as to go un-noticed by the person who is unaware. Do not hear the wood split. Hear the only sound of axe, cutting air. Read the air itself. It has much say to you.”
Tadashi Yamashita - Eastern Trainer

“That is one of the many voices of food.”

Bruce Willis - RJ

“- Jensen: Did you know that cats can make one thousand different sounds and dogs can only make ten? Cats, man. Not to be trusted.
- Pooch: You know what? Do me a favor - never say that again.”
Chris Evans - Jensen
Columbus Short - Pooch

“Don't you listen to the desert? Even when there's no wind the sand sings.”
David Carradine - Changsha

“- Morgan Hess: We have to tape this.
[he gets a tape, but Bo Hess grabs it and hugs it to her]
- Bo Hess: My ballet recital!
- Morgan Hess: Listen, Bo. This is very important. Everything people have written about in science books is going to change. The history of the world's future is on the TV right now. We need to record this so you can show...” (continue)(continue reading)

Rory Culkin - Morgan Hess
Abigail Breslin - Bo Hess

“When cut across the neck, a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say. I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday, to hear that sound. But to have it happen to my own neck is ridiculous.”

Minoru Ôki - Master of Death

“I know that sounds bad, but I'm just doing musical arm farts. You know how to do those? They're hard to do because we're made of metal, but that's where the skill comes in.”
Robin Williams - Fender

“- Buliwyf - Leader: You can draw sounds?
- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: Draw sounds? Yes, I can draw sounds... and I can speak them back.
- Buliwyf - Leader: Show me.
- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: [drawing in the sand] There is only one God, and Mohammad is his prophet.”
Vladimir Kulich - Buliwyf - Leader
Antonio Banderas - Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan

“- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: Ow!
- Olga: That's a woman's sound.
- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: Do that again and you'll make it.”

Antonio Banderas - Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Maria Bonnevie - Olga

“- Captain von Trapp: Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear.
[blows whistle]
- Maria: Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating.”
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp
Julie Andrews - Maria

“- Adam: Do you like music, Caroline?
- Caroline: Mmm. That's the first time I heard you say my name. It sounded... nice.
- Adam: Would you like to listen to my records, Caroline?”
Christian Slater - Adam
Marisa Tomei - Caroline

“I've always wanted to sound like Billy Connolly.”

Billy Connolly - PC

“There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through...” (continue)(continue reading)
Levon Helm - Narrator

“- Martin Riggs: What I wouldn't give for a siren right now!
- Roger Murtaugh: Aawwwww!”

Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

“- Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
- Edward Creighton: It's music.”

Robert Young - Richard Blake
Dean Jagger - Edward Creighton

“- George Bailey: There she blows. You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
- Uncle Billy: Uh huh. Breakfast is served; lunch is served; dinner...
- George Bailey: No no no no. Anchor chains, plane motors and train whistles.”

James Stewart - George Bailey
Thomas Mitchell - Uncle Billy

“- Paul Kirby: What was that?
- Billy Brennan: That's a Tyrannosaurus.
- Dr. Grant: I don't think so. It sounds bigger.”

William H. Macy - Paul Kirby
Alessandro Nivola - Billy Brennan
Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant

“- Donna: Did you hear that sick sound?
- Cozzie: Yeah, it was creepy. Probably your mom howling out her anti-sex warning.”
Trish Doolan - Donna
Gene Bicknell - Cozzie

“If a dragon falls in the forest and nobody gets to hear about it, does it make a thud?”
Pete Postlethwaite - Gilbert of Glockenspur

“- Col. 'Madman' Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
- Capt. Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
- Col. 'Madman' Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!”

Warren Oates - Col. 'Madman' Maddox
John Belushi - Capt. Wild Bill Kelso

“I am thinking of the piano. She does not play the piano like we do, Nessie. She is a strange creature. And her playing is strange, like a mood that passes into you. Your playing is plain and true, and that is what I like. To have a sound creep inside you is not at all pleasant.”

Kerry Walker - Aunt Morag

“The majesty and grandeur of the English language, it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative, and musical mixtures of sounds.”
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins

“I hear nothing, not even a sound on the streets of New York. Just the beat of my own heart. I have mail... from you.”
Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly

“Crap! That's what that was! A load of bloody crap.”

Pete Postlethwaite - Danny

“- Jamie Gangel: That'll be the phone.
- Sandra Gangel: Well it wouldn't be the bloody Hoover bag, would it?”

Glen Berry - Jamie Gangel
Linda Henry - Sandra Gangel