Noisy Quotes

179 quotes by 161 authors

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection… — M H Abrams
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got… — Mel Brooks
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. — Mel Brooks
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. — Truman Capote
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy. — Ian Anderson
A noisy man is always in the right. — William Cowper
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. — William Wordsworth
I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones. — Gareth Chilcott
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural… — Beverley Nichols
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy… — N. T. Wright
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. — Louis Kronenberger
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most… — Mark Twain
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from… — Rajneesh
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of… — Holbrook Jackson
God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear. — Caryll Houselander
Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does… — Pope Benedict XVI
Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible… — Max Ehrmann

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