A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Ambrose Bierce

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Dead Irritating Life Noises Phonograph Toy

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

P.J. Wolfson

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

Henry Selick

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Bill Johnson

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

Carlos Slim

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

Bill Vaughan

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.

Neil Gaiman

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

John Cage

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

Billie Eilish

Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.

Derren Brown

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

Jonathan Shapiro

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

Joshua Ferris

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Raymond E. Feist

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

James McBride

When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.

Jim Norton

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Nora Roberts

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. Like my dad, who's not here, but he's here.That's why there's the Day of the Dead. There's such a connection with the dead.

Sandra Cisneros

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