Noise Quotes - page 3

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. (Robert B. Laughlin)
I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world? View quote
Emil Cioran
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk. View quote
Emil Cioran
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. View quote
David Ogilvy
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. View quote
Robert Fripp
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. View quote
Joseph Addison
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. View quote
Roger Ebert
The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much. View quote
Elaine Paige
We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life. (Richard Pryor)
Neither noise nor information is predictable. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. View quote
Mother Teresa
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, it's too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all and simply to start. View quote
Robert Harris (novelist)
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked. View quote
Bill Hybels
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone-all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it. View quote
Albert Camus
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however, that though such people make a great noise the masses are not like them. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. [Opening sentence.]. (John Steinbeck)
In this country the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise. View quote
Jane Fonda
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war. View quote
Plutarch
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. View quote
Plutarch
Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. View quote
Malcolm X