Noise Quotations | Page 7

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

I'm making a lot of noise as I walk.

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

I like the noise of democracy.

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises...

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice." I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore nice. Not "I opine that your auditory nasal exhalations are most pleasing.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.

Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.

I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!

The noise is greater then the nuts.

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.

Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)

You need the noise of your friends in space.

Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.

When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

Them being so young, I'm sure they thought it was over early. I also think the atmosphere with the crowd noise was all more than they anticipated.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

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.

Be dangerous and unpredictable. And make a lot of noise.

I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

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.

When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

And as long as she's got noise she's fine, but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.

As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.

The lottery has become the white noise of society. It doesn't stand out as it once would have. As long as people here keep the lottery cool and don't offend the North Carolina sensibility as long as it doesn't get tacky I think it'll come off fairly well here.

The loud noise is very scary, and if you have a dog that's very scared of a gun shot, thunder sounds very similar.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

OY! Stop playing around and lets cook already!" *smack* J-just now, that made a really loud noise.." Do you wanna hear it again?" N-no, you'll just hit me again!" Kyo and Tohru

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the author's best guesses. Where possible, illustrations of important symbols mentioned in the recording have been added. Background noises such as scuffling, hitting, and cursing by the two speakers have not been transcribed The author makes no claims for the authenticity of the recording. It seems impossible that the two young narrators are telling the truth, but you, the reader, must decide for yourself.

There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Silence is a still noise.