Grating Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. — William Wordsworth
But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. — William Godwin
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating. — Warren Zevon
Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his remarks… — Charles Krauthammer
All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities. — Sarah Jio
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a… — John Steinbeck
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted. — Stefan Molyneux
The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all… — Henry Moseley
A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose. — John Vance Cheney
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to… — Asger Jorn
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice… — George Eliot
Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water… — Betty Smith
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let… — Jules Verne
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a… — Edgar Allan Poe
Okay, boys.â€ Pestilence's grating voice rang out. â€œKill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started! — Larissa Ione
The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. "Don't say I never took… — Veronica Roth
Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think… — Darynda Jones
I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen… — James A. Baldwin

Who Wrote These Grating Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Grating Quotes as follows: