Quotes About Commotion

This moment's chord of earthly commotion will never be struck exactly so again-- though love does love to repeat its favorite lines.

Fuss is the froth of business.

There is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.

There is a commotion as the reporters vie for Eric's sound bite. Gradually, the crowd falls back to allow Emma Wasserstein passage. She shakes Eric's hand, and Chris's, and then leans forward to give Eric's briefcase back to him. But as she does, she comes close enough to whisper to me. Mr. Hopkins, she says, a truth meant only for me, I would have done it, too.

Loud sounds are everywhere.

Rufus was aware in the same instant that their own footstep and the wailing had caused a commotion on his left and, glancing as sharply into the sunlit room where his father lay, saw an incredibly dense crowd of soberly dressed people on weak, complaining chairs, catching his eye, looking past him, looking quickly away, trying to look as if they had not looked around.

Mrs. Vanlandingham from across the street heard the commotion and came running, still holding a dish towel. She arrived just as the sheriff, Nix Gridley, wheeled into the parking lot and slid in the gravel.

Mary and her six servants shouted louder and louder

Far above in the building, a door slams, muffled voices are heard and there is the sound of feet rapidly descending a staircase. The café seems to listen attentively. The dried glasses on the shelves vibrate against each other, in sympathy with the crashing footsteps. The contracting metal of the cappuccino machine clicks. A drop of water falls from the tap, spreads over the bowl of the sink, then trickles towards the plughole.

Haven't seen so much screaming and yelling since I went to a goat-fuck out in South

Silent they sat, James aware of her agitation but puzzled as to the cause, Agatha aware of his puzzlement but not trusting her voice to put him at ease. She was trying to control a strange commotion in her breast, a kind of flutter or tremor caused by his invitation to Ireland.

Ain't you goin to ax me?" Maureen asked. Ruby snatched her head around to face Maureen. "Lamb, you know anything about a commotion out here?" Ruby cooed. "I don't know nothin about no commotion, but I know somethin about that man yall kilt." Virgil

What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here?

Rumpus Bumpus,

In the streets, everything is bodies and commotion, and like it or not, you cannot enter them without adhering to a rigid protocol of behavior. To walk among the crowd means never going faster than anyone else, never lagging behind your neighbor, never doing anything to disrupt the flow of human traffic. If you play by the rules of this game, people will tend to ignore you.

Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.

While Saul was talking to the priest, the commotion in the Philistine camp continued to increase. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

For we are in jeopardy of being charged with rioting for todayís events, and we have no justification to account for this commotion.”