Noise Quotes - page 23

What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. (Stephen Spender)
I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success! View quote
Anne Frank
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. View quote
Terry Pratchett
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore. View quote
Diane Ackerman
There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy. View quote
Ben Affleck
There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris she brought forth a mouse. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. View quote
Bryan Procter
I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
To confess to freedom, the highest habit; while so many are courting the powerful and look from below to the tyrants slowly crossing through the town, longing in envy to be seen in the crowd and to narrate their parenthood. Better to look on in serenity: the noise of triumph is like a polluted river. Better to decide and to act, at the service of the ready heart and oppose the anonymous world, uniting the individuals ever more in the * "thou.”. View quote
Aldo Capitini
Teachers and pop icons, empty drums beat loudest noise. We swap their quotes and CDs like children trading toys. Follow along, bite the barbed hook deep in our jaw... (Dawud Wharnsby)
My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a wingèd sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files. View quote
Henry Vaughan
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. View quote
Russell Baker
Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives? View quote
John D. MacDonald
A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives? View quote
John D. MacDonald
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. View quote
Nate Silver
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. View quote
Nate Silver
As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars. View quote
Jerry Spinelli
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. (Charles Dickens)
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd. View quote
Charles Dickens
Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry. View quote
Charles Dickens
They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, Faster Faster. View quote
Charles Dickens
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. View quote
Eric Hoffer