quotes about Sirens
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L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.
-- Cassie SteeleSource : "Cassie Steele Isn't Suffering From An 'L.A. Complex'". MTV Interview, www.mtv.com. April 24, 2012.
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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
-- David Knopfler -
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.
-- Edmund Clowney -
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Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.
-- Hank Green -
Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.
-- Jaron Lanier -
Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
-- Joe Eszterhas -
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Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling.
-- John Grogan -
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
-- John Podhoretz -
Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more
-- Linda HowardSource : Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, Jillian Hunter, Miranda Jarrett, Mariah Stewart (1999). “Under The Boardwalk: A Dazzling Collection Of All New Summertime Love Stories”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
-- Ralph Ellison -
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Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.
-- Robert M. Lindner -
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
-- Louis L'Amour -
When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.
-- Ella Henderson -
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
-- Stewart Copeland -