(9 quotes found)
“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.”
Helen Keller
“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man”
W. R. Inge
“They are being impertinent.”
Tom DeLay
“Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to”
Plutarch
“All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome”
Ben Jonson
“The committee chair would have killed the bill to teach me a lesson of the impertinence of a freshman introducing policy. Or, if the chair really liked my bill, they'd strip my name off and put theirs onto it, before moving it out of committee. Or I'd have never have sent the bill for a hearing. What wouldn't have happened is for a bill to pass out of committee with my name on it.”
Keeley
“May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.”
Robertson Davies
“At least one hour will be music. The rest will be impertinent remarks,”
Walter Wells
