Raucous Quotes

#1. In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy.
"The moment they start trying to move into each other's pots, we'll know they're fully mature," she told Harry.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,May they be strong to keep hate outAnd hold love in.

Louis Untermeyer

#3. [I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.

William DeVries

#4. A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

William Faulkner

#5. I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

Jason Newsted

#6. I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

David Gray

#7. David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. Fire-lizard dance on wing
To the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn.

Anne McCaffrey

#9. I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

Ivan Reitman

#10. From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium.

Pat Forde

#11. For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

Erma Bombeck

#12. I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

Pamela Sargent

#13. A drunkenness brought on by gulped beer on an empty stomach produces raucous sniping, atrocious singing, nausea. But a tizzy induced by impeccable wine slowly sipped during a marvelous meal and burnished by a superb brandy elicits miraculous conversation.

Keith Miller

#14. The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Susan Sontag

#15. Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

Zach Condon

#16. Raucous, but this was a work night and there would be no dancing

Serena B. Miller

#17. Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous.

Charles Martin

#18. The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses.

Robert Sheckley

#19. For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

Jung Chang

#20. Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.

Frederick Lenz

#21. We Irish Catholics know very well how raucous happiness displeases God, so there is much evidence of guilt in all we say and do, but nonetheless it is said and done.

Morrissey

#22. I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Ben Hecht

#23. Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

Studs Terkel

#24. They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

Stephen Hunter

#25. They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Karen Maitland

#26. Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.

Frederick Lenz

#27. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Nancy Gibbs

#28. Ron made a triumphant gesture with his fist and went into a raucous peal of laughter that made several timid-looking second-years over beside the window jump. A reluctant grin spread over Harry's face as he watched Ron rolling around on the hearthrug.

Anonymous

#29. I heard of a tradition," said Thorne, "where the guests are supposed to make a bunch of raucous noise outside of the bridal chambers on the wedding night, until you give us candy and send us away."
Scarlet glared at him. "Yeah, please don't do that.

Marissa Meyer

#30. Raucous quacking sounded in Firestar's ear. He jumped up, staring around wildly until he spotted a duck in the water beside the reed bed.

Erin Hunter

#31. Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Nina Easton

#32. The camp children descended upon me in a raucous, violent flurry of little bodies. I felt like tiny buffalo were stampeding over me.

Colleen Houck

#33. The door banged open, letting in a raucous flood of the Oak Ridge Boys.

Stephen King

#34. Even then I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the mere sound of your raucous young voice

Vladimir Nabokov

#35. Raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack ...

Elizabeth George

#36. High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

Dan Jenkins

#37. Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead ... Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms.

Stewart O'Nan

#38. There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair

Daphne Du Maurier

#39. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Paula Poundstone