Noise Quotes

1175 Noise quotes by 871 unique authors

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. — Sherwood Smith
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy… — Chuck Palahniuk
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space,… — Chuck Palahniuk
well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy -… — Ellen Wittlinger
And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise… — David Nicholls
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. — Oscar Wilde
There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the… — Harper Lee
The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. — Colum McCann
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us… — Raymond Carver
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. — Ambrose Bierce
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just… — Muriel Barbery
He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It… — Neil Gaiman
I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in… — Harlan Coben
As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said.… — John Flanagan
Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa
I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit… — Audrey Niffenegger
O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in… — Andrew Lang
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. — Yann Martel
I thought you were a drunk." "A drunk?" "Bloodshot eyes, dirty clothes, getting home in the wee hours of the morning, making a lot of… — Linda Howard
When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely… — Karen Marie Moning
A thief never makes a noise by accident. — Megan Whalen Turner
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence,… — Chuck Palahniuk

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