Quotes About Noise

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

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

Todo esto se ha descrito mil veces, quizá no merece la pena detenerse de nuevo en esta sórdida y apestosa ópera. Además, quizá tampoco sea útil ni pertinente comparar la guerra con una ópera, y menos cuando no se es muy aficionado a la ópera, aunque la guerra, como ella, sea grandiosa, enfática, excesiva, llena de ingratas morosidades, como ella arme mucho ruido y con frecuencia, a la larga, resulte bastante fastidiosa.

spectacular. The chugging of the engine and the squeal

A study at Cornell University found that low-level noise both lowered job motivation and increased stress levels. It appears as well that an open-office type of environment can contribute to musculoskeletal problems such as a stiff back or tense neck and even heart disease due to increased levels of epinephrine, a stress hormone.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.

The hinges screamed like a wounded animal.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain would get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

So all day long the noise of battle roll'dAmong the mountains by the winter sea.

Never mind literal climate change, there's been a whole seasonal shift. It's like walking in a blizzard all the time just trying to get to what's really happening beyond the noise and hype.

Sylvie made a noise in the range of an assent, but short of true acquiescence.

I hear the noise of your thinking; but I don't listen. Your thoughts wouldn't bear remembering.

Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived of one hidden small iron clapper, its sole reason for being, its single means of song.

Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren't trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

Because sometimes there's more worth in silence than noise. Sometimes everything you need to know is contained in that small quiet space. Sometimes we get so caught up in distraction and noise and seeking other people's approval we forget the quiet seed of truth that lives in our hearts. But just because we fail to tune in to it, doesn't mean it's not there.

It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most of the blame lies on man's inclination to tune into the noise that blares all around him instead of the beautiful silence that lies deep within.

Le silence est plus tapageur que tout.

Mi fa orrore la musica di sottofondo, innanzitutto perché non esiste cosa più volgare, e poi perché le melodie più belle possono entrare in testa con tale insistenza da trasformarsi in canzonette. Non esiste l'amore di sottofondo, la letteratura di sottofondo, il pensiero di sottofondo: esiste il rumore di fondo, che è una cosa orribile, un veleno.

Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.