Loud Quotes - Page 21

• I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Silence, Enjoy

  "Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.

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• When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

  Joe Perry

  Guitar, Flames, Play

  FaceBook post by Joe Perry from Mar 24, 2015

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• I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

  Liz Phair

  Bars, Remember, Obnoxious

  "Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

  Miuccia Prada

  Want, Messages, Sophisticated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

  Chris Pratt

  Blow, Way, My Favorite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Trying, Sake

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• You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Being Strong, Rude, True To Yourself

  "Big interview: Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2004.

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• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Party, People, Four

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• 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Uplifting, Morning, New York

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• As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

  Tim Scott

  Spending, Clear, Reins

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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• This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

  William Shatner

  Valentine, School, Cards

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

  William Shatner

  Thinking, People, Amusing

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• Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Done, States

  "Simon Sinek: Get Things Done". www.askmen.com.

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• No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

  Simon Sinek

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "Thinking Out Loud: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Class, Free Education, People

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• When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Doors, Office, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

  Donatella Versace

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

  Max Ehrmann

  Philosophical, Vexation, Spirit

  Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Worry, Cooking

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• Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Believe, Inspiration

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Air

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• It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Air, Sound, Hard

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.199, Random House

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• Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.

  Brad Pitt

  Children, Health, Drug

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Country, Lying, Moon

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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