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“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.”

“He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.”

Sometimes Hands Funny Enjoy Sound Voice Wonder Beats Humorous Importance Satisfaction Obvious Sentences Mellow

Book:Bleak House

Source: Bleak House

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

Years Children Real Sound Five Childhood Humorous Parenting Five Years Menace Five Year Olds Funny Parent

Book:Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”

“My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.”

Knows Mean Sound Humorous Profound My Favorite Insane Reviews Mail Junk Cinematic Junk Mail

Author:Steve Buscemi

“I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.”

Language Sound Gone Humorous Telling The Truth Foreign Language So Far Gone

Book:Father Figure

Source: Father Figure

“His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.”

Eye Sound Humorous Fairs Sorry Neighbor Teeth Bags Sarcasm Trifles Drawers Warrants Girdles

Book:The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections

Source: The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections

“I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.”

Men Persons Funny Hate Sound Music Humorous I Hate Angry Rap Bunch Melody Shouting Rap Music Angry Man

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.”

Knows Able Funny Actors Sound Acting Ought Humorous London Telephones

Author:Donald Sinden

“Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment”

People Funny Sound Seeing Humorous Envy Actresses Punishment Comedian Jealousy Vacation Drag Considering Day Entertainers Social Network

Author:Betty White

“Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.”

Ifs Men Made Said Ideas God Humor Funny Courses Sound Church Tree Worship Humorous Golf Climbing Golf Course Worship God Aluminum Siding

Book:I'm Not Really Here

Source: I'm Not Really Here