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«Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.»

Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Hate | Keywords: child, consequence, fears, hate, hates, make noise, noise, noised, noises, noise like

«I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when I'm lonely I need the noises of destruction When there's nothing new»

Author: Nick Lowe | Keywords: breaking, Broken Glass, noises, The Sound

«Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.»

Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Music | Keywords: disagreeable, noises

«There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.»

Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | About: Beauty | Keywords: babies, billed, billing, bills, downy, ducked, ducking, ducks, gentle, heads, noises, Order of, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, soft, toddle, toddles, toddling

«He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass»

Author: African Proverb | Keywords: ass, noises

«There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief /a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.»

Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: babies, bills, causing, comprehend, crush, downy, engage, heads of state, head of state, inability, mammal, mammals, mischief, noises, orders, Orders of, Order of, ripple, ripples, rippling, state of mind, styles, throws, toddle, toddles, toddling

«Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.»

Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: noises, opera

«The ice was here, the ice was there, / The ice was all around; / It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, / Like noises in a swound!»

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Critic, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: all-around, cracked, growl, growled, growling, growls, howled, howls, ice, noises, roared, The Howling

«My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.»

Author: Stephen Wright (Actor, Writer) | About: Babies | Keywords: noises

«Noises at dawn will bring / Freedom for some, but not this peace / No bird can contradict.»

Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: bird, contradict, dawn, For some, noises, Peace and Freedom

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