Noise Quotes - Page 8

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don't have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there's a noise.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.