"there is no noise louder than a silent phone."

-- Lois Wyse

#Phones Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Noise Quotes

“I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight”
“I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.”
“...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
“All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.”
“Evolution is the secret for the next step.”
“I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.”
“Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?”

Source : "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

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