Noise Notch Quotes & Sayings

human beings have an almost infinite capacity for adapting to the expectations around — Gloria Steinem

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping. — Georges Perec

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray

Didn't we just talk about this the other night?" Denise sighed with exasperation. "Yeah, we talked. Or rather, I talked. But you didn't say much at all." "Sure I did." "No, you didn't. But then, you never have. You just talk about surface things, never the things that are really bothering you. — Nicholas Sparks

A dream is not a very safe thing to be near ... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it. — William Faulkner

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies. — Plato

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy. — Sloane Crosley

All bombing is terrorism. — Suzy Kassem

The intellectual summits of my life had been completing my dissertation and publishing my book, and that was already more than ten years ago. Intellectual summits? Summits, full stop. In those days, at least, I'd felt justified. Since then I hadn't produced anything except a few short articles for the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies, plus a couple for The Literary Review, when some new book touched on my field of expertise. My articles were clear, incisive and brilliant. They were generally well received, especially since I never missed a deadline. But was that enough to justify a life? — Michel Houellebecq

There's bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel. — Michael Jackson

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. — Carol Burnett

Everything you do.. defies any dream I've ever dreamed. You're so much more perfect to me than I ever knew how to wish for. ~Tara Mae~ — Lucian Bane

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush