Noise Quotes
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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.
Susan Barker
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In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
Mickey Hart
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
Seth Godin
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Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
Paul Hindemith
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
John Milton
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That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
Sufjan Stevens
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Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise.
John Peel
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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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.
Suzy Kassem
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No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.
Sanya Richards-Ross
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The best Startups don't create noise. They create a gravitational pull.
Wayne Chang
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Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
Stephen Spender
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
Seth Godin
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I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.
Sufjan Stevens
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When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
Noah Cicero
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Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck.
Barry Cryer
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Seneca the Younger
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'419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.
Evan Osnos
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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
Thomas Harris