Top 27 Sound And The Fury Quotes
#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. I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.
Tony Kushner
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
John Le Carre
#7. I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#8. Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry.
William Faulkner
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
Dave Sim
#13. My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.
David Hewson
#15. 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
#16. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
James Joyce
#17. many villagers still commonly use the unit of measurement dan, literally the amount of weight a grown man can carry over his shoulder.
Dan Washburn
#18. What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?
Randy Glasbergen
#19. 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
#20. Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Michelangelo
#21. The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.
William Faulkner
#22. 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
#23. Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields.
Michio Kaku
#24. 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
#25. As you feel more and more love, begin to smile, let go, be free.
Frederick Lenz
#26. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
John O'Donohue
#27. Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
Claude Simon