Top 15 Sound Bite Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sound Bite Quotes from famous people such as Bill Ayers, Linda McMahon, Salman Rushdie, Allen Iverson, Alexa Chung, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me

I didn’t respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
Bill Ayers
Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I’d experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren’t allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite.
Linda McMahon
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie
As far as how I expressed ‘practice, practice, practice’ over and over again, I wouldn’t take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.
Allen Iverson
People want an easy sound bite.
Alexa Chung
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people’s pleasure. It’s an adventure.
Emily Blunt
I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, ‘That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.’
Mike Huckabee
The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.
Darrell Hammond
The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we’re off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.
Dave Brat
I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that’s inappropriate and insensitive.
Kirk Cameron
Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we’re comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person’s experience to a sound bite.
Phil Klay
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a ‘sound bite.
Paul Theroux
I’m so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
Genevieve Gorder
I can’t tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?
Derek Walcott
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
Marina Sirtis