Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We've always kind of tried to keep the mystique. We don't wanna give everybody everything. You give 'em too much, it's just… — Johnny Christ Copy Share Image
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard,… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other… — Bernie Krause Copy Share Image
I just want to apologise for being late. I was flying back from Spain and the air hostess said: "We are two… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“From The Noise of Time: What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves--the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You always need to win. I'm in the kind of job when only winning is acceptable really because you can highlight positives… — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it.… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly… — Ruth McKenney Copy Share Image
A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my… — Chuck Panozzo Copy Share Image
As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
