Deadening Quotes

'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - Walter Dwight

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone. - Phil Harris

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. - Paul Kantner

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - William Somerset Maugham

[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails. - Susan Sontag