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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. -- Ian Somerhalder
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. -- Jack Kerouac
Roaring is never a voice for indoors. Roaring sounds better when done outdoors! -- Lorraine Loria
Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. -- J. Paul Getty
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. -- Judith Jamison
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? -- Virginia Woolf
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed. -- Ayelet Waldman
It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing. -- Russell Brand
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. -- John Muir
I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community. -- John C. Maxwell
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men. -- Barry S. Strauss
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. -- Rudolf Otto
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period. -- Martin Scorsese
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. -- Fritz Kreisler
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. -- James Cagney
The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore. -- Roald Dahl
The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. -- Homer
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right. -- Hilaire Belloc
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour. -- Ade Edmondson
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. -- Jennifer Crusie
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. -- Albert Einstein
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief. -- Barbara Kingsolver
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. -- Will Rogers
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? -- Elizabeth Bishop
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear -- Fritz Kreisler
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. -- Saint Peter
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life. -- Sri Chinmoy
The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it? -- Reinhard Bonnke
We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature. -- Robert Harris
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour. -- Ade Edmondson
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. -- Hugh Hefner
Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore. -- Karen Russell
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness. -- Charles Spurgeon
I am a big fan of cosy. I get very excited by a roaring fire and even a perfectly made cup of tea. And being married really is the ultimate in cosy, so I couldn't be more content. -- Sophie Winkleman
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. -- Fritz Kreisler
When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening. -- Bill Viola
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith. -- Ellen G. White
I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter. -- Mary Quant
I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring. -- Cory Monteith
Tweeting lovebirds turn into roaring bears after marriage. -- Junaid e Mustafa
We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring. -- Cory Doctorow
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. -- Charles Tomlinson
The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks. -- Swami Vivekananda
The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire. -- William Vaughn Moody
Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy! -- Euripides
If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night. -- Jimmy Buffett
All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.... -- William Butler Yeats
Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good. -- George Packer
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning. -- Ivan Panin
Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words. -- Margaret Laurence
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. -- Robert E. Howard
What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence? -- Susan Scott
After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. -- Erin Hunter
We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring. -- Martin Buber
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again. -- Tom Waits
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval. -- George Takei
We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring? -- Dianna Hardy
Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE -- Tristan Tzara
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. -- John Keats
You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are. -- Brett Brown
Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me. -- Jack London
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. -- Samuel Butler
It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human. -- Arthur Rimbaud
When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside. -- John Mark Green
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? -- Diane Setterfield
Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments. -- Georges Rouault
Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. -- John Gay
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! -- Thomas Carlyle
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy. -- Franz Kafka
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You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl! -- Carry A. Nation
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again. -- Samuel Beckett
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. -- Abraham Maslow
Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea. -- Rick Riordan
Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her. -- Laini Taylor
You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. -- C. S. Lewis
We have heard her shouting among the mountains,"And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions. -- Kahlil Gibran
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence. -- J.R. Ward
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope. -- Robin McKinley
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man. -- William Blake
That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered. -- John Green
The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead. -- C. S. Lewis
Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture. -- Abraham Cowley
Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear. -- Charles Spurgeon
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned. -- Charles Baudelaire
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world. -- Henrik Ibsen
You must try to forget all you have learned," said the old man. "You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices. -- Sherwood Anderson
But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom. -- Ernest Hemingway
Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire. -- Seth MacFarlane
You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something? -- Gregory Maguire

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