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Noise Quotes - Page 5

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.5, Manchester University Press

Noise: a stench in the ear.

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.732, Library of America

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.304

People who make no noise are dangerous.

"The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1029, Harvard University Press

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

"Phylicia Rashad: A Director's Life". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. June 27, 2012.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_”, p.565, e-artnow