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Quotes About Shouting

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
~ Felix Dennis
History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.
~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.
~ Stephen Cosgrove
The world is a very noisy place and so I don't need to shout about things. There are so many people shouting and a lot of people get lost in it.
~ Ben Howard
He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.
~ Milan Kundera
I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.
~ Steve Lillywhite
She folded her arms and then shouted, Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats! Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin' o' the arms, the foooldin' o' the aaaarmss! cried Daft Wullie, dropping to the ground and trying to cover himself with leaves. Around him Feegles started to wail and cower and Big Yan began to bang his head on the rear wall of the dairy.
~ Terry Pratchett
Some of the men and older boys were trained in firing the cannon, but since there wasn't any gun powder to spare for actually firing any more of the things, they made do with pushing wooden cartridges into the barrel and shouting, "Bang!" They got quite good at that, and were proud at the speed with which "Bang!" could be shouted. Daphne said she hoped the enemy would be trained to say "Aargh!
~ Terry Pratchett
In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.
~ Terry Pratchett
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.
~ Helen Garner
He called at once to his companion Patroclus, shouting for him from the ship. Hearing the call in his hut, Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end.
~ Homer
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.
~ Milan Kundera
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.
~ Jane Fonda
Emerging onto the main level, Mappo and Fiddler were accosted with the harsh echo of a shouting voice, bouncing down the hallway from the altar chamber.
~ Steven Erikson
1879 a little girl ran shouting to her father about bulls – it was the discovery of paintings in Altamira Cave.
~ Steven Mithen
You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
~ Steven Moffat
This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence - to the spirit as well as to the body. It is about ulcers as well as accidents, about shouting matches as well as fistfights, about nervous breakdowns as well as kicking the dog around. It is, above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
~ Studs Terkel
Or maybe there was no one there at all and you'd gone out so no matter how hard I shouted there was no one there.
~ Caryl Churchill
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
~ Sam Sheppard
We are dreamers, shouting out in our sleep, pilgrims lost in a forest of symbols where no man can say with certainty who he is.
~ Kem Nunn
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
~ Alison Moyet
TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.
~ Claire Fox
People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.
~ Geoff Rickly
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
~ John Berger