Noise famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.
-- Aaron T. Beck -
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
-- Abraham Cowley -
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
-- Agatha Christie -
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
-- Alexander Pope -
I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable ...
-- Anne Bosworth Greene -
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.
-- Antonin Artaud -
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
-- Antonio Porchia -
The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.
-- Arthur Symons -
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
-- Babe Ruth -
There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
-- Ben Affleck -
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
-- Bennett Cerf -
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.
-- Bill Hybels -
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
-- Bill Hybels -
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
-- Bill Murray -
If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?
-- Brad Warner -
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
-- Brian Andreas -
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
-- Brian Eno -
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
-- Bryan Procter -
I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
-- Cara Delevingne -
Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.
-- Carl Froch -
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
-- Carl Jung -
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
-- Carl Jung -
What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins
-- Charles de Lint -
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
-- Charles Dickens -
God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.
-- Charles Wesley -
[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.
-- Christopher Paolini -
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Outside the Weirwall, Jack could hear the thud of bodies colliding and the cries of the wounded. It seemed like a lot of noise. Even given the fact that Ellen was involved. "Why'd she go out there?" Jack demanded. "Why didn't you stop her?" Brooks spat on the ground. "Have you ever tried to stop Captain Stephenson from anythin'?
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
-- Daphne Koller -
Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.
-- Darby Stanchfield -
What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo
-- Dave Barry -
Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.
-- David First -
They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.
-- David Levithan -
Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.
-- David Shore -
Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise
-- Derrick May -
How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!
-- Diane Duane -
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
-- E. V. Lucas -
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
-- Edmund Burke -
Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson -
Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.
-- Edwin Way Teale -
No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.
-- Eoin Colfer -
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
-- Eve Best -
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.
-- Facundo Cabral -
Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.
-- Frances Wright -
My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand -
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
-- Freddie Mercury -
For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
-- Frederick William Faber -
It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
-- Gary Busey -
Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.
-- Geoffrey Wood -
Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.
-- Geoffrey Zakarian -
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
-- George Gershwin -
In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.
-- George Gilder -
All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.
-- George Gilder -
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
-- George Mason -
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
-- George Steiner -
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
-- George Will -
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
-- Gertrud von Le Fort -
The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent...
-- Gregory Galloway -
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises...
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Time has been called God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. In the same spirit, noise is Nature's way of making sure that we don't find out everything that happens. Noise, in short, is the protector of information.
-- Hans Christian von Baeyer -
In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.
-- Hans Christian von Baeyer -
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.
-- Henry Thomas Buckle -
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.
-- Hugh Hopper -
If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.
-- Hunter Hayes -
There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!
-- Ian St John -
How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?
-- Iggy Pop -
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
-- Isabel Allende -
Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.
-- Israel Houghton -
Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
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 a good news.
-- Jack McDevitt -
There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence
-- Jacqueline Carey -
Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.
-- Jacques Attali -
What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.
-- Jacques Attali -
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
-- James Chanos -
You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
-- James Daly -
A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.
-- James Hunter -
Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.
-- Jan Hunt -
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
-- Jane Austen
