“ The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament. ”
- Brother Lawrence- Copy
- 3.1K
“ When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 525
“ Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? ”
- Mason Cooley- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you ain't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises,The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. ”
- Arthur Symons- Copy
- 2.7K
“ This is America and I'll make as much noise as I want so just shut your own mouth. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 65
“ Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness. ”
- Philip Guedalla- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise. ”
- Paul McCartney- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ”
- Michael Bamberger- Copy
- 314
“ Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. ”
- Pete Sampras- Copy
- 2.6K
“ My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. ”
- Al Capone- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country. ”
- Charles Lyman Loffler- Copy
- 424
“ War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit. ”
- Smedley Butler- Copy
- 1.1K
“ All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. ”
- Thomas Beecham- Copy
- 854
“ War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ”
- Smedley Butler- Copy
- 3.8K
“ War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. ”
- Smedley Butler- Copy
- 1.8K
“ It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket. ”
- Frank Deford- Copy
- 3.6K
“ They prey on their own with extortion and protection rackets, in a culture where people don't go to the police and where most police don't speak the language. ”
- Ronald Goldstock- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Whenever I hear a dog continually barking, my reaction is one of relief-that it's not my dog making all that racket and inciting the neighbors to call the police. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
- 2.2K
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