Murray Walker Quotes

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

Murray Walker

• Noise
• Affected
• Pits
• Lanes
• Indescribable

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• To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

  

  Dabney Coleman
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• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  

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• Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

  

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• I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

  

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• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

  

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• And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

  

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• We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

  

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

  

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

  

  R. Murray Schafer
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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  

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• The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

  

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• It's our children and our children's children who will be affected by this technology, and it is up to us to stop it. I hope you will join us.

  

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• I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.

  

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

  

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• Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

  

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• Lots of other factors affected them last year but they are an extremely proud union. We fully expect a pretty fired-up team facing us on their home ground.

  

  Ian Foster
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• Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

  

  Paul Hindemith
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• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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• I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Noise
  • Affected
  • Pits