Noise Quotes

• Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

  

  William H. Stewart
  • Calling
  • Nuisance
  • Hazards

• The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Feels
  • Sound
  • Computer

• TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Pain
  • Dead
  • Crying

• If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • God
  • Voice

• Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.

  

  Elihu Burritt
  • Run
  • Vehicles
  • Loaded

• Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Life
  • Technology
  • New York

• After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Impatient
  • Boiling
  • Kettle

• There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Noise

• I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Band
  • Wanted
  • Noise

• Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • She
  • Truth

• Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

  

  Alfred M. Gray
  • Intelligence
  • Irrelevant
  • Communications

• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Reputation
  • Remains
  • Noise

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

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Music
  • Noise
  • Flashy

• Rock stars are good at making noise.

  

  Bono U2
  • Good
  • Noise
  • Rockstars

• Henry James privately characterized Roosevelt as "a dangerous and ominous jingo," and "the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise."

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Dangerous
  • Noise
  • Characterized

• When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Construction

• There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.

  

  Alexander Klopping
  • Content
  • Noise
  • Filtering

• 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
  • Affected
  • Pits
  • Lanes

• One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Music
  • Persons
  • Unendurable

• With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through.

  

  Steven Price
  • Action
  • Style
  • Noise

• It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Cleaning
  • Clean
  • Tape

• Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

  

  Ty Segall
  • Sometimes
  • Records
  • Crutches

• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Events
  • Noise
  • Gravest

• I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

  

  Agathe Snow
  • Running
  • Need
  • Noise

1

2

3

4

5

6

previous

next