Ticking Noise Quotes

#1. What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake which emitted a curious ticking noise? Would you plunge it into a pail of water - thus insulting Soviet cuisine in general?

W.C. Fields

#2. But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

#3. If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it.

Debasish Mridha

#4. My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

#5. I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

Neneh Cherry

#6. I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

Rick Moody

#7. She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.

Polly Horvath

#8. After a while I get the feeling that Mum and Brian aren't home. Kane either. It's because the house is making so much noise; ticking and creaking as it stretches in the sun. Acting like a house does when nobody's around to see it. It must have forgotten about me.

Kirsty Eagar

#9. You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. I have learned that having a cause to fight for is a noble and rare thing to have. So be fearless and fight.

Abeer Allan

#11. My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

Tupac Shakur

#12. And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

Marcus Aurelius

#13. There are no limits, only plateaus.

Sam A. Patel