“ Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? ”
- Mason Cooley- Copy
- 1.8K
“ All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. ”
- Bayazid Al Bistami- Copy
- 1.3K
“ This is America and I'll make as much noise as I want so just shut your own mouth. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
- 562
“ I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. ”
- Paddy Ashdown- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise. ”
- Paul McCartney- Copy
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“ Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty. ”
- Maria Edgeworth- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Laughter — An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ”
- Ronald Knox- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
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“ In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 3.5K
“ And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickened of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.9K
“ In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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“ Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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