Roaring Quotes

• It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

  Russell Brand

  Gay, Heterosexuality Is, Robins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Giving, Lions

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• The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

  Roald Dahl

  Laughter, Fall, Broken

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• The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear

  Fritz Kreisler

  Sound, Welcome, Moral

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Numbers, Nerves

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.72, City Lights Books

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• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bible, Devil, Lions

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

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• Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

  Rudolf Otto

  Dark, Rocks, Sea

  Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.73, Walter de Gruyter

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• There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

  Ian Somerhalder

  People, Twenties, Interest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Memorable, Academic Life

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• Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

  Margaret Laurence

  Animal

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• From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

  Ade Edmondson

  People, Age, Toilets

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

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• Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Military, Fighting, Army

  Sonnets and Verse (ed. 2, 1938) "The Pacifist"

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• You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

  James Cagney

  War, Struggle, Tired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

  M. L. Stedman

  Ocean, Blue, Water

  "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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• It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  Heart, Good Luck, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  John Muir

  Song, Tree, Tragedy

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Long, Devil, Caged

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.86, Broadview Press

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• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Sea

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• All the stream that's roaring by
  Came out of a needle's eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Streams, Needles

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

  Ivan Panin

  Lightning, Silent, Thunder

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• The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

  John Keats

  Nature, Stars, Children

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 403

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• We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

  Martin Buber

  Ocean, Self, May

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• There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

  Samuel Butler

  Gossip, Lions, May

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4250, Delphi Classics

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