Noise Quotes

1175 Noise quotes by 871 unique authors

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution. — Tara Brown
Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts,… — Sivananda Radha Saraswati
Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is… — Saint Augustine
Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of… — Earl Sweatshirt
Noise: a stench in the ear. — Ambrose Bierce
Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. — Luigi Russolo
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but… — Richard Griffiths
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. — Pierre Schaeffer
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe… — Mark Price
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. — Russell Baker
Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise. — Edwin Way Teale
In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays… — William Irwin Thompson
We like no noise unless we make it ourselves. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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… — Jules Renard
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe… — Jonathan Swift
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning… — Charles Caleb Colton
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. — John Donne
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And… — Euripides
But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on… — Robert Benchley
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. — Milan Kundera

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