Noise Quotations | Page 7

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

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.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

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

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.

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

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

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.

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

You need the noise of your friends in space.

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

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

Those that govern most make least noise.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

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.

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

You know one thing, he's definitely had a lot of experience. Playing in a Super Bowl, playing in the league so many years, he knows how to deal with crowd noise and he knows the offense. He knows all the reads. I just hope he can go out there and lead us to a win.

All I heard was a crackling noise and then I saw the scaffolding fall off the building.

The idea is to try to do as much in practice as you can to simulate the noise factor and the communication, how much closer you have to listen. We'll work on all those things. We'll do everything we can.

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.

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.

Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

You've got the place all to yourself. I was out paddling about two-three weeks ago. You don't hear anything but your blade hitting the water. You don't hear any traffic noise at all.

And make noise on instruments, and we got into punk, so we got this band together, with three guitars because we couldn't afford amps.

The economy is detached from the political noise surrounding the electoral process.

The crowd noise killed us, no question. It killed us. You can never say what it means, how valuable it is. The sound is valuable. It's tough for you to do anything. Offensively, it was tough for us to get going.

The crowd deserves a significant portion of this success. I've never been in an arena that had the kind of noise that they had today. It's a tribute to their fans. It was very, very difficult. We didn't manage it very well.

The claims are legal blanks -- no more than a lot of noise and smoke.

The child was not having a conversation with the dispatcher, but was making enough noise that the dispatcher could tell that there was a child on the other end.

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Silence is a still noise.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.