Noise Quotes

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

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

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

Dale Earnhardt told me it doesn't matter if fans boo or cheer, as long as they're making noise.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

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

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

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

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

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.

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

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

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

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

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

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.