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Quotes About Bustle

There was such a repose and quiet here at this hour, as if the very hill-sides were enjoying the scene, and as we passed slowly along, looking back over the country we had traversed, and listening to the evening song of the robin, we could not help contrasting the equanimity of nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always a crises near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending." - A Walk to Wachusett
~ Henry David Thoreau
I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and noise level, but, in fact, Tokyo is a very calm metropolis. The bright lights and hectic night-life images so often found in advertisements and Western media do not reflect every day Japan.
~ Min Jin Lee
New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.
~ Emma Roberts
One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry.
~ Terry Pratchett
I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle.
~ Allison Tolman
I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. And I have since now found a New York where if I lived there now, I know where I would want to live.
~ Allison Tolman
When we'd first moved home, I had missed the ground bustle, but had since fallen in love with the feeling of the open air around us, the play of winds among the thinner branches, the illusion that one could be all alone.
~ Storm Constantine
The noise of horns and radios and shouted insults was part of the soundtrack of the capital (Hard-boiled P.I. Casta, on Rome, Italy)
~ Tobias Jones
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
~ Vera Wang
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
~ Beverly Cleary
The ceaseless motion and incomprehensible bustle of life. Feigenbaum recalled the words of Gustav Mahler, describing a sensation that he tried to capture in the third movement of his Second Symphony. Like the motions of dancing figures in a brilliantly lit ballroom into which you look from the dark night outside and from such a distance that the music is inaudible…. Life may appear senseless to you.
~ James Gleick
Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
~ John Milton
Who could sit upon anything in Fleet-street during the busy hours of the day, and not be dazed and deafened by two immense processions, one ever tending westward with the sun, the other ever tending eastward from the sun, both ever tending to the plains beyond the range of red and purple where the sun goes down!
~ Charles Dickens
Busier than a Mosquito at a Nudist Colony
~ Internet meme
Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter to make a person yearn for a calm, green spot. Then you need a first-class park,
~ Gurcharan Das
I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.
~ Lake Bell
I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.
~ Bridget Moynahan
L.A.'s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.
~ Lonzo Ball
Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Love of bustle is not industry. —SENECA
~ Timothy Ferriss
All was fullness and all was active, there was no weakness in time, all, even the least perceptible stirring, was made of existence. And all these existents which bustled about this tree came from nowhere and were going nowhere.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.
~ Method Man
A tranquil circle of grass surrounded it, strangely peaceful in the chaotic bustle of the market.
~ Tui T. Sutherland