Silence speaks volumes. No extra noise.

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames…

— Karl Pilkington

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

— Terry Pratchett

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee

"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't…

— Judy Blume

After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving…

— N.D. Wilson

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…

— Michael Eisner

When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange…

— Tana French

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

— Tony Hatch

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

— Rick Riordan

“Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts”

— Jose Rodrigues Migueis

Sometimes there's too much noise about what's happening, but this is Barcelona - it is a big club. Sometimes people make more of things…

— Ernesto Valverde

We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic noise, and…

— Jinkx Monsoon

Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk…

— Thurston Moore