Noise Quotations | Page 8

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

they say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought about how loud prison was. I've never thought about how your ears never really get a break from all this noise. That was actually replicated on our set pretty well.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one...

In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.

making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.

Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before—just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence.

Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise

The articulate voice is more distracting than mere noise

We are the boys / That fear no noise / Where the thundering cannons roar.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

Noise: a stench in the ear.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem,To him that leads it, wise and to be praised;But wisdom is a pearl with most successSought in still water, and beneath clear skies.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise...

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

We take our last look at the killing noise.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

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.

I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.