Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Pitt

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Desmond Tutu

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Clifford Stoll

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

Phylicia Rashad

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

Lewis Mumford

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

Thomas Bernhard

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

Gary North

Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.

Shane Black

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

Naomi Klein

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

David Silverman

With the increase in broadband penetration further enhancing how messages get delivered, we should continue to see a favorable environment for increased Internet ad spending.

Rick Tsai

We feel the first quarter will be a quite good period based on messages from our major customers.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

Chloe Grace Moretz

It's hard to confront someone without knowing, [but] I think the first thing you should do in a relationship - any kind of relationship - is confront. Then, if they seem shady, maybe go for the email or the text message.

Chesley Sullenberger

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

Charlize Theron

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

Bob Saget

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

Gary Knell

We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning.

Christian Winthrop

We've always maintained that the whole premise of her candidacy has been silly. Ms. McFarland is not a serious candidate and once again she's proved it.

Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

Geno Zamora

Tom said people in our country should not live like this. We filed law suits in Dona Ana County and it worked for two reasons. The developers knew they would be held accountable and there was some serious reform of the New Mexico Subdivision Act.

David Kendall

We respectfully object to the committee's broad request for all information concerning all persons who have contributed or pledged more than $5,000 to the foundation. There are serious and substantial legal, precedential and public policy issues raised by this catch-all request.

Alfonso Scanio

We respect and defend the right of the Church to address questions of values, but it is very serious to receive only one of the candidates for prime minister just ahead of the ballot.

Henry Hyde

We respect and appreciate the bipartisan agreement established by this Senate, ... We intend to use the time we have been provided to present a compelling case on the serious charges pending against the President.

Richard Armey

We're going to take the president's submission as a serious proposal, and we're going to see where we can go and how we can work with the White House and the Democrats,

Andrew Hargadon

What we're seeing now with eBay is an end to the monopoly. The company faces a serious challenge over the next 10 years.

Mike Cooke

We would seriously question the judgment of any board member or administrator who would have this community believe that they can simply fire the current employees and contract with an outside company to bring in strangers to work in our schools, and still provide the same degree of quality, safety and service that our current custodians and head custodians provide.