quotes about Cacophony
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I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
-- Brad Pitt -
Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
-- Clifford Stoll -
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
-- James ChanosSource : "Interview with Jim Chanos". Graham & Doddsville, a Columbia Business School investment newsletter,
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The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
-- Lewis Mumford -
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Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
-- Naomi KleinSource : Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada
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There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
-- Phylicia Rashad -
When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.
-- Rachel Held Evans -
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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.
-- Shane BlackSource : "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.
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Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
-- Thomas Bernhard