Noise Quotes · Page 39

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

— Muhammad al-Bukhari

“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”

— Temple Grandin

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of…

— Agatha Christie

“If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot. Such”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence…

— Federico Fellini

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

— Suzy Kassem

I don't know what caused my tinnitus, but I started to become aware of a very low ringing noise in my right…

— Martin McGuinness

“Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of…

— Corra May Harris

I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a…

— Julia Kent

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the…

— Edward Hoagland

I haven't talked to [Sterling Simm] personally about the situation. We did a couple retweets to make some noise and get a…

— Kid Ink

“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...…

— Simona Panova

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die…

— Henry Mitchell

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around…

— Salman Rushdie

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the…

— Indra Devi

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that…

— Guity Novin

A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,…

— Rose George

I've seen a lot of people getting into Jazzmasters because of me, and, well, people don't know what they're in for. I…

— Tom Verlaine

Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you…

— Sivananda Radha Saraswati

Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like…

— Anonymous

There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things…

— Pope Francis

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You…

— Nas

jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

— Maria Franziska von Trapp

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at…

— David Hockney

Some people are in the habit of complaining about everything; even about the noise made by opportunity that knocks on the door.

— Vikrant Parsai

“What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.”

— Kristin Hannah

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

— Len Deighton

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. ..

— Yann Martel

I think for me, trying to block the outside noise has been difficult, but also doable.

— Trinity Rodman

I don't always need music, I can be with silence but not absolute silence. For example, I love the desert but there…

— Michele Lamy

The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own…

— Russell Simmons

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

— Dan Hill

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching…

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up…

— Tina Brown

When I'm in New York, I have, like probably everybody else in Manhattan, a white-noise generator to use at night: a Marpac…

— Erik Larson

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me…

— Ethel Waters