Cacophony Quotes

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

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.

The crowd...a cacophony of colour

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?

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.

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.

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

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.

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.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.

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.

Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It’s all a beautiful calamitous mess.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.