Noise Quotes
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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
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That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.
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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.
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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
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You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
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We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.
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There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.
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You don't make a statement unless you make noise.
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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.
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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
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It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.
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Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.
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There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
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A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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If you have a smile on your face and you make a lot of noise, people really really think you know what you are doing.
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Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
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You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.
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The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.
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I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn't speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I've developed a writing practice, I couldn't do it.
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In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
