Noise Quotes

1175 Noise quotes by 871 unique authors

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to… — H P Lovecraft
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not… — Isabella Beeton
It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face. — Joe Teti
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. — Brian Andreas
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated… — Bix Beiderbecke
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,… — John Donne
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its… — Pope Francis
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host.… — Pope Benedict XVI
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged… — George Bernard Shaw
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the… — Emmeline Pankhurst
A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think. — Tom Ford
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the… — Chuck Jones
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair… — Kenneth Grahame
If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee. — A A Milne
Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind. — Paul Hindemith
Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica. — Thomas Beecham
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that… — Christopher Reeve
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and… — Sigurd F. Olson
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker… — Gregory Bateson
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had… — Bernie Krause
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would… — Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. — May Sarton

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