Alarms Quotes - Page 13

• How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

  John Cheever

  Mean, People, Sound

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

  Gordon Cooper

  Intelligent, Order, Our World

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• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Space, Silence

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

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• You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

  Dave Attell

  Tongue, Ass, Karate

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• Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

  Allen Carr

  Men, Order, Bricks

  Allen Carr (2009). “Easy Way to Control Alcohol”, p.80, Arcturus Publishing

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• Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

  Chris Hardwick

  Philosophy, Real, Trying

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• I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

  Donatella Versace

  Sleep, Wake Up, Clock

  "My List: Donatella Versace in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Morning, Mp3

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• Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

  Tom Robbins

  Making Love, Bed, Answers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.5, Bantam

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• I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Needs, Next, Clock

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

  Lewis Carroll

  Butterfly, Wings, Feet

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Through the Looking-Glass: and what Alice found there”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

  Stephen Fry

  Morning, Fall, Symphony

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• Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Looks, Useless

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.169, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Giving, Unnecessary, Imagine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The Scarlet letter”

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• Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

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• Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Trying, World, Satisfaction

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• In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I register my anxieties and alarms. This is true even in my comedies.

  Norman Lock

  Writing, Character, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a statement from several members of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans, including the Democratic leader, Charles Schumer; John McCain, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee; and Lindsey Graham, also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. They write that recent reports of Russian interference in our elections should alarm every American. They say Democrats and Republicans must work together to investigate this.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Writing, Leader, Working Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Block, Home, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

  Paul A. Baran

  Advancement, Helping, Economic

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.244, NYU Press

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• Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

  Sophia Bush

  Morning, Sleep, Past

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• I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Mind, Watches, Generations

  Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”

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• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you’re in a good place and you’re in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  Salma Hayek

  Wine, Numbers, Red

  "Salma Hayek Covers More Magazine: Actress Talks ‘Sexting’ Her Husband Francois-Henri Pinault". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money.

  Janet Evanovich

  Jesus, Pms, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, War, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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