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.

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

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

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!

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.

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.

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.