Noise Quotes
Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.
For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.
There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.
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.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.
We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.
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.
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.
Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.
You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!
Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.