Shriek Quotes
36 quotes by 33 authors
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Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was…
— Alexander MacLaren
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You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
— Heinrich Heine
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If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the…
— William Peter Blatty
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Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one…
— Lester Bangs
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,…
— John Milton
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Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
— Santoka Taneda
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What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a…
— John L'Heureux
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There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless…
— Leslie Fiedler
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Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for…
— Hermann Bahr
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I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But…
— Anne Michaels
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek…
— Florenz Ziegfeld
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If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not…
— Lucy Stone
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Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and…
— Emma Thompson
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It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her…
— Denis Johnson
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
— Saul Bellow
Who Wrote These Shriek Quotes
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