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. Jean Kerr
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Soren Kierkegaard
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. K. Eric Drexler
I am a trial lawyer.... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. Mario Cuomo
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. Noam Chomsky
There is a wise reason why a cock can't sound like a turkey. African Proverb