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Quotes About Roar

Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it now drowned with the roar of contingency
~ Craig Johnson
Thirty seconds after the explosion came first, the air blast pressing hard against people and things, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained, awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty.
~ Unknown
The strings all soar, The reeds implore, The brasses roar with notes galore. It's music that we all adore It's what we go to concerts for.
~ Unknown
Ha-ha! Ah-hahahaha! I am wizard; hear me roar!
~ Jim Butcher
I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled...
~ Jim Butcher
If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go.
~ Jim Butcher
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
~ David Whyte
He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the Conriyan encampment and counted fires like an idiot child. "Always number your foemen," his father had once told him, "by the glitter of their fires." Sometimes he gazed at the stars and wondered if they too were his enemies.
~ R. Scott Bakker
The piano sounds became a roar, like an ocean of music crashing against the dark tile walls.
~ R.L. Stine
He turned to face the assembled clansmen, raised his arms and greeted them with a ringing shout. "Tulach Ard!" "Tulach Ard!" the clansmen gave back in a roar. The woman next to me shivered. There was a short speech next, given in Gaelic. This was greeted with periodic roars of approval, and then the oath-taking proper commenced.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm not gonna call myself the little engine that could because I'm 5'10 and I'm far from little - I'm the little engine that roared.
~ Bebe Buell
lumbered away. All of a sudden, there was a tremendous roar, and from this magical book, a lion came out. A tan-colored male with great mane stalked out. People claim he is he king of the jungle, and surely he is - even his leap was royal looking. Sally and Milkshake were amazed, truly amazed. She tried to count how many animals jumped out and where they were. They were loose in the library. Sally wanted to close the book, but a man rushed out from it.
~ Unknown
God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear, even if earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!
~ Unknown
Then Wade cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled as loud as he could: "ECHO!" Indeed, there was an impressive echo. Followed by the mighty roar of a troll.
~ John August
I realized the place was awash in noise. The toneless systems, the jangle and skid of carts, the loudspeaker and coffee-making machines, the cries of children. And over it all, or under it all, a dull and unlocatable roar, as of some form of swarming life just outside the range of human apprehension.
~ Don DeLillo
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.
~ Lydia Millet
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
~ John Vaillant
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
~ Unknown
He threw his head back and let his disbelief and fury break free. The sound was pain-filled and fearsome, the cry of a wounded beast. It reverberated through the trees, bouncing off the walls of the valley, the echoes doubling back into one agonized, unbroken roar.
~ Unknown
Well, chaos was not unfamiliar to him. In daily life, his emotions were chaos. He let himself become a vessel for them, letting feeling roar through him, pulling him around like a kite, boiling him like water in a kettle, dissolving him in a whirl of elements.
~ Mary Gaitskill
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. (Psalm 46:1-3)
~ Unknown
Ahbearrrrrrrrr!
~ Unknown
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
~ Matthew Arnold
Listen! you hear the grating roarOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,At their return, up the high strand,Begin, and cease, and then again begin,With tremulous cadence slow, and bringThe eternal note of sadness in.
~ Matthew Arnold