#noisy

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. ↗

— James Thurber

#lead #lives #men #noisy #nowadays

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. ↗

— Imogene Coca

#butterfly #comedians #essentially #hammer #most

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#either #experimental #fairly #i #involved

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

#enjoy #few #functions #gesture #goodwill

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. ↗

— Adelaide Anne Procter

#discordant #ease #echo #fingers #harmonious

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#got #lively #living #noisy #quiet

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. ↗

— Truman Capote

#i #just #noisy #shotgun #tall

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#controversies #decline #i #noisy #personal

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#back #being #forth #noisy #passed

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just