Outer Noises Quotes

#1. My thoughts are rancorous, ruinous. They throng through me like a shoal of sharp, silver sprat whenever the outer noises aren't loud or plenty enough to keep them at bay, to keep them out of the bay, the bay of my brain.

Sara Baume

#2. Peace is the inner silence that calms all outer noises.

Debasish Mridha

#3. As you say, nature taunts us with our weaknesses.
Myrina took Klito by the shoulders, 'It is not a taunt, but a challenge.

Anne Fortier

#4. I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

Alex O'Loughlin

#5. My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

Henny Youngman

#6. We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy ... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Morrie Schwartz.

#7. I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago

#8. I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was time to grow sage. Or so I imagined.

Stephen Fry

#9. Can't you improvise? You know, make some loud pounding noises or cause the outer walls to bleed?

Jeaniene Frost

#10. Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part of the West's winning formula: the third institutional innovation of private property rights, the rule of law and truly representative government?

Niall Ferguson

#11. You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

Miles Davis