Noise Quotes - page 4

I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected. (Murray Walker)
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. View quote
Octavio Paz
My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me. View quote
Louise L. Hay
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. View quote
Sarah Dessen
we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away. View quote
Conor Oberst
Some say silence is golden, I choose noise! View quote
Blake Lewis
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. View quote
Antonio Porchia
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humour. It is naked noise and naked malice. View quote
Mervyn Peake
God loves the noise as much as the signal. (Lewis M. Branscomb)
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so it is the sickening grammar that they use. View quote
Mark Twain
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery it's a pen that scratches. View quote
Robert Orben
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! View quote
John Milton
For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this - a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create - to create - to create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of beauty and meaning his very breath is cut off from him. He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. View quote
John Keats
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. View quote
George Crabbe
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information. View quote
Quentin Crisp
When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley. View quote
Sergey Brin
...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. (Colum McCann)
On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. View quote
Mark Haddon
Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise out of your biological system. So that, it's not going to make your immune system stronger than normal. What it does, in my view, is allow your immune system to work with the full force of normality. View quote
Neal Barnard
If you must make a noise, make it quietly. View quote
Oliver Hardy
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke