Noisy Quotes

179 Noisy quotes by 155 unique authors

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on… — Theodor Reik
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting… — Jerry Saltz
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I… — Lincoln Steffens
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have… — Lewis Thomas
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. — James Thurber
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. — E. O. Wilson
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our… — James Wolcott
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways,… — Peter Cook
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
I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook… — Michael Collins
Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain.No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated… — Susane Colasanti
I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad… — Shel Silverstein
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will… — Scott Adams
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my… — Adeline Yen Mah
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good… — Daniel Handler
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing… — Tom Stoppard
From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad… — Milan Kundera
Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.… — Daniel Dennett
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau
The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk.… — William Goldman
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite… — Christopher Hitchens
On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go… — Spike Milligan
Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking… — Jonathan Tropper

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