Description Quote by H. G. Wells

“It is a monstrous noise -silence”

— Emily Curtis

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson

“We who live in the civilized world are accustomed to a background roar that never goes away. It is the pounding of our machinery…

— Pirate Lanford

“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my…

— Helen Keller

“Forgoing eternally, sir, such things as, for example: two fresh-shorn lambs bleat in a new-mown field; four parallel blind-cast linear shadows creep across a…

— George Saunders

“On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of branches and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The Loud came before the quiet. That was a Rule of the World, for the bangs and shouts need somewhere to echo, just as…

— Hugh Howey

“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,…

— Thomas Hardy

“The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could feel it under your feet.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a while. Steady…

— Casey Fisher

“The loudest sound you'll ever hear is the weight of your own silence— a roar that fills every corner, until you're swallowed whole by…

— Sean DeLaney

“But they hushed, all at once and quite abruptly, when he stood still at center stage, his arms straight out from his shoulders, and…

— Denis Johnson