Irritating Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image ““Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.”” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irritating Life Noise Phonograph Toys
“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious… — Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Copy Share
“The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The sound is gone. There's nothing left but the insomniac throbbing of crickets. Crickets in the garden, the courtyard, the back courtyard. Close, domestic, identifiable. And those out in the country. Between all of them they raise, little by little, a wall that will keep out the thing that lies waiting for the tiniest crack of silence to steal through.… — Rosario Castellanos Copy Share
“I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its… — Elin Stebbins Waldal Copy Share Image
“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin...The older instruments bear the marks of those who have already played them, the scuffs and bites and dents that are the mysterious scars of sound. In their midst the… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share
“The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The music passed in an instant, as the first bars of sudden music always did, over the fantastic fabrics of his mind, dissolving them… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“To honour its first creation, no sound was permitted within the home of Muse for a full year, no sound save that of its… — Cameron Rogers Copy Share Image
“live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible. — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image
I know how irritating it is when a producer puts his hand in everything. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
I wanted to do action, and it was a bit irritating when people called me a chocolate boy. I can do other films, too. — Naga Chaitanya Copy Share Image
So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But… — Charlie Munger Copy Share
I am a very choosy guy, sometimes it gets very irritating for composers. If I don't feel it, then I am not able to… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
