Noise Quotes

1175 Noise quotes by 871 unique authors

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and… — Dag Hammarskjold
You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame… — Dag Hammarskjold
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that… — Mark Twain
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks. — Robert Cormier
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… — Diane Ackerman
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you… — Thomas Merton
Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?" Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully. Ron made a noise… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any… — Shirley Jackson
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes,… — Dave Eggers
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no… — Hermann Hesse
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain. — Dorothy Parker
Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. — Frances Densmore
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks… — George Eliot
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. — Philip Roth
Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and… — Katherine Anne Porter
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief — Charles R. Swindoll
Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight,… — Unknown Author
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the… — Terry Pratchett
Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at… — C.S. Lewis
They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise. — Terry Pratchett
That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be… — Thomas Hardy
Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. — Robert Bloch

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