Loud

Famous quotes containing the word loud:

    And we talked of girls, and dropping bombs on Rome,
    And thought of the quiet dead and the loud celebrities
    Exhorting us to slaughter,
    Alun Lewis (1915–1944)

    He appeared to be a very religious man, and said his prayers in a loud voice, in Indian, kneeling before the camp, morning and evening,—sometimes scrambling up again in haste when he had forgotten this, and saying them with great rapidity. In the course of the day, he remarked, not very originally, “Poor man rememberum God more than rich.”
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, “This is indeed Life itself!” turned suddenly to regard his beloved:MShe was dead!
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)