Noises Quotes

150 quotes by 129 authors

Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and… — P.J. O'Rourke
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its… — Henry Ward Beecher
I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said… — P.G. Wodehouse
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. — Samuel Johnson
Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune… — Rajneesh
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single… — Vince Gill
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane — James Lafferty
That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the… — Terence Corcoran
Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems… — George Eliot
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing… — Alejandro Amenabar
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets… — Don Bassingthwaite
Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company. — Mark Lynas
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. — Tim Ferriss
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
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a… — Charles Cumming
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only… — Judith Levine
There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only… — Peter L. Berger
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make… — S I Hayakawa

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