Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very…

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose…

— Joan Baez

“Listening is a very rare skill, and in these noisy times, it is more and more valuable.”

— John Green

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we…

— Mother Mary Francis

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

— Sally Quinn

“Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only thing that…

— Elizabeth Goudge

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the…

— Mark Twain

“So now I lye by Day and toss or rave by Night, since the ratling and perpetual Hum of the Town deny me rest:…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let…

— Kamand Kojouri

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find…

— Henry James

Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back…

— Mel Brooks

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

— Alison Assiter

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international…

— Vladimir Putin

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the…

— Kate Millett