…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…
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the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, a... ALFRED KORZYBSKI If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dog... SAM HARRIS There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward au... JONATHAN SHAPIRO Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becom... CYRIL CONNOLLY The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convict... MERVYN PEAKE There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right JULIO DAVILA When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I cannot wait to get into the whole woods when all of the birds come back. This is the kind of grass... JAN WRUCKE I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten... KEVIN HEARNE Noises Off MICHAEL FRAYN When I got here, people would do the monkey noises and chants and stuff like that. I just kind of la... DAMARCUS BEASLEY We can hear noises of cries for help. NAZRUL ISLAM Funny noises are not funny NANCY CARTWRIGHT Music is an equation of noises and I fucking damn like noises... I die for one more noise. DEYTH BANGER Everybody makes noises when they're kids. But when you reach a certain point, you stop so you can be... CHARLIE WILLIAMS Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The epiphany for me was that I knew chimp mommies don't make these noises, so I knew something happe... DEAN FALK I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when I'm lonely I need the noises of destruction When ... NICK LOWE When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. EMILY CARR The noises and smells have been continuous. PAUL FEINSTEIN The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN [Hall can also read lips, which is how he often communicates with his father, who frequently travels... KEVIN HALL Wouldn't you like to write checks when you don't have any money in the bank? ... It's tempting. It's... ANN FOX The Colorado River is extremely important to the state of Arizona. When other states begin to make n... JOHN SULLIVAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON "Prophetic visions from the clouds symbolize the veil that exists between us and the Spirit World" ~... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. SAMUEL JOHNSON Every time he touched the ball they made the same noises. Now we all have to be on his side and supp... VICTOR VALDES I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip cod... FRANK ABAGNALE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two c... MENACHEM BEGIN Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. MOLIERE We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosop... ALFRED KORZYBSKI When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the ric... YO-YO MA When we feel used and abused, the Bible says we are loved. When we feel abandoned, the Bible says we... TERESA SCHULTZ Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. JOHNNY ROTTEN I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY According to Newtonian 3rd law in physics life, nature all that we do is governed by a equal or oppo... GARY F EVANS... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becom... CYRIL CONNOLLY Justice is the state that exists when there is equity, balance, and harmony in relationships and in ... KEN WYTSMA We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to o... ELEANOR BROWN Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor... ALFRED KORZYBSKI Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absol... DAVID OGDEN STIERS I do not write checks. ANA LAMPTON I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth. CARA DELEVINGNE we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Do not always listen to rumors in the market. Learn to keep out all those noises so you can sniff ou... ZENG HAN JUN We weren't too nervous but we'll definitely sleep better. As long as there aren't any rattling noise... BEN BROWN When I saw the gun, I focused on the threat. I heard the first shot and remember noises and seeing p... ERIK EISSINGER There's always that one guy with the 100-watt half-stack who is maxing out his amp and being heard t... SHIVAN BARWARI Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and ... STEVE ALLEN He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass AFRICAN PROVERB Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surfac... ABRAHAM MASLOW Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! J.R.R. TOLKIEN Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers. MEG CABOT Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere. MARGARET WISE BROWN It was determined at today's meeting that we cannot say that core consumer prices have stabilized ab... TOSHIHIKO FUKUI When you're rich you don't write checks. RANDY MOSS When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single mos... MARILYN MANSON I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that ... OCTAVIO PAZ Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squab... , PLAYBOY INTERVIEW - DECEMBER 1963 The idea is not to generate unusual noises, so as not to give the other side an excuse to break the ... ALEX FISHMAN There's no way we can hand-write all of the checks we have to write to vendors without the computers... BRAD BECKER I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could mak... RICHARD GRIFFITHS The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. JOSE MOURINHO People are attracted to who we are more than what we do. LORRIN L. LEE Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their... DAVID LIVINGSTONE We only care about our faults when we realize them. DANIEL MELGAçO All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as ... NORMA FOX MAZER Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are peop... GRETCHEN RUBIN Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain... H. L. PHILLIPS If we look at the balance between good and evil, our world as it is has an imbalance of evil and it ... GARY F EVANS... It’s true that when we get caught in the spider’s web—between the first chance event and the s... JAVIER MARíAS Those really are not legitimate complaints. When our floodwall is in place and securing the river, w... GARY WARREN At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a r... WILLARD WIGAN The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything. When you’re at its bank you�... ALBERTO CAEIRO In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should... GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON "WHEN WE TWO PARTED" They were caught in the blast. There was a lot of rubble around and they were basically scared. They... JOHN SPARROW Some people are born to make a Point... And some to make money... No COMPARATIVE analogy exists TALEES RIZVI My favorite special skill on my resume is 'excellent monkey noises.' CIARA RENEE How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi... RACHEL VAN DYKEN How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi... RACHEL VAN DYKEN No customs nor traditions symbolize that chapter of our lives we daughters open our pages to, when o... MAICHEE SUMMER I do not cash my checks nor even look at them. I just put them in the bank. ALDERMAN CHARLES I do not cash my checks nor even look at them. I just put them in the bank. ALDERMAN JOE CHARLES Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' li... NAVEEN JAIN
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