Quotes About The Sound And The Fury

#1. Once upon a time, it had sufficed to write 'The Sound and the Fury' or 'The Sun Also Rises.' But now bigness was essential. Thickness, length.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

David Hewson

#3. The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford.

Ann Brashares

#4. Oak had nothing finished and ready to say as yet, and not being able to frame love phrases which end where they begin; passionate tales - Full of sound and fury
- signifying nothing - he said no word at all.

Thomas Hardy

#5. In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist
but I found I had nothing to say.

Victor Borge

#6. The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.

Edward Tenner

#7. Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind them, but had brought the laws of harmony along.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.

James Lovelock

#9. This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came together in a spectacular clash of sound and fury.

Sharon Kay Penman

#10. The beauty of scientific laws shows the beauty of God himself.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#11. Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry.

William Faulkner

#12. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.

William Faulkner

#13. The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

Ron Jaworski

#14. Genevieve hunched her shoulders against the storm of sound and fury and struggled to imagine a worse sort of hell. Widdershins, of course, seemed perfectly happy, but Widdershins was weird.

Ari Marmell

#15. I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Dave Gahan

#16. We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Golda Meir

#17. Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

William Faulkner

#18. If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

Albert Camus

#19. When hope is busy dying, you should run and you should hide. But whatever you do, don't pray for hope.

Larry Finhouse

#20. Of having forgotten the colour of loves and the taste of hatreds. We thought we were immortal.

Fernando Pessoa

#21. Alas, all that sound and fury disguised the fact that on Omaha Beach at least, the bombs fell too long, the rockets fell too short, and the naval gunfire was too brief.

Craig L. Symonds

#22. The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.

William Faulkner

#23. Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

Lee Kuan Yew

#24. The times when she was away were hard for Jimmy. He worried about her, he longed for her, he resented her for not being there.

Margaret Atwood

#25. I scream at the top of my lungs. I scream bloody murder. I scream with years of pent up fury. But no sound leaves my chest. It's like I have forgotten how to speak.

Loretta Lost

#26. Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

Claude Simon