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The crowd...a cacophony of colour -- Peter Drury
Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion. -- Clifford Stoll
Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. -- Thomas Bernhard
One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible... -- Chris Hedges
All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. -- Gayle Forman
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you. -- Naomi Klein
There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise. -- Phylicia Rashad
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
It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony. -- Henri Matisse
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 Black
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. -- Stewart Dalzell
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful. -- Ayelet Waldman
Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time? -- Vincent Price
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. -- Desmond Tutu
Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see. -- Vicki Goldberg
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 Chanos
The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you. -- Om Puri
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. -- Martin Scorsese
It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new. -- Royal Cortissoz
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. -- Gary North
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a cacophony of misdirected protests. His task is to remind them of who they are and what they ought to be. Our values are not to be taken from conduct of our adversaries but from the great heritage of our people. -- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
There is music in the cacophony of life. -- Saru Singhal
I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. -- Brad Pitt
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged. -- Bryant McGill
New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling. -- Thom Mayne
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important. -- Rod Dreher
if you will always give great ears to the cacophony of the masses instead of the solemn voice of your true purpose, you will never leave a distinctive footprint -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people. -- Max von Essen

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