Noise Quotes

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.