Noisemakers Quotes

#1. The week the local paper carried a story about the boy's incarceration and lobotomy in the state hospital at Rusk, the guys at the refinery pitched the kid's daddy a party complete with balloons and noisemakers.

Mary Karr

#2. Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

Wanda Landowska

#3. As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

Giannina Braschi

#5. Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic.

Jim Gaffigan

#6. What a majestic God!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The lion crouches in the tall grass. The gazelle sniffs the air. The awful stillness before the strike.

Rick Yancey

#8. All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.

Adrian Tomine

#9. Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

Saint Basil

#10. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo