Loud Quotes - Page 9

• But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Cutting, Men, Names

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.133

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• When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Country, Song, Home

  Francis Scott Key (1857). “Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq”, p.34

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• You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Ebb And Flow, Depth

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 193

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• The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Self, Black

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1926). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Notes on Shelley's correspondents. Letters, 1803 to 1812”

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• Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Believe, Grateful

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.115, New York Review of Books

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• The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.

  Mary Howitt

  Strong, Blow, Sea

  Mary Botham Howitt (1847). “Ballads and Other Poems”, p.238

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• Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

  Djuna Barnes

  Life Is, You Like It

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  School, Artist, Mad

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

  Kim Wilde

  Dream, Night, Ceilings

  Song: Fit In, 1984

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• You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

  Kim Wilde

  Confusion, Trying, World

  Song: It's Here, Album: Love Moves

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• Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Jugs

  'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'

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• My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I've lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.

  Justin Bieber

  Thinking, Fans, World

  "Justin Bieber Talks 'Surviving' Puberty". Vibe.com Interview, www.mtv.com. July 23, 2010.

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• The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Cells, Discovery

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

  Plutarch

  Horse, Men, Weakness

  "Roman Apophthegms". Cicero. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

  Jose Marti

  Kings, Men, Worst Enemy

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Air, Foul, Smoke

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1895). “The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works”

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• I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Motherhood, Years

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• There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.

  Mary Webb

  Loud Voices, Blood, Battle

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• In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.

  Manohla Dargis

  Baby, Loneliness, Sadness

  "A Youngster With a Key, a Word and a Quest" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Long, Cry, Prophet

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• Sound, sound the trump of Fame!
  Let Washington's great name
  Ring through the world with loud applause;
  Let every clime to Freedom dear
  Listen with a joyful ear.
  With equal skill, with god-like power,
  He governs in the fearful hour
  Of horrid war, or guides with ease,
  The happier times of honest peace.

  Joseph Hopkinson

  War, Skills, Names

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Impact

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• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

  Janice Mirikitani

  War, Believe, Yellow

  Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

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• The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Humble, Champion

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• My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.

  Moby

  People, Confusion, Soul

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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