Quotes About Noise

For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.

CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet—two clarionets.

I must protest!' barked Lorsen. 'If you must, you must, but I won't be able to hear you with all this noise.' 'What noise?' Cosca stuck his fingers in his ears. 'Blah-lee-lah-lee-lah-lee-lah-lee-lah…!

Those fucking spurs! Stealthy, I said! You might as well hang a bell off your cock!

People love the idea of freedom but, in my experience, there is only so much they can be trusted with. You saw what Judge did with it. Take it far enough, freedom becomes chaos. The voice of the people… is just noise. It is the blather of the lunatics in the madhouse. It is the squeal of the pigs in the slaughterhouse. It is a choir of morons. Most of them don't even know what they want, let alone how to get it. They need someone to tell them what to do.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

Ç?kan ses zarars?z olabilir, ama yank? daima kötüdür.

we heard a muffled boom

I think the evil is in the food, in the noise, in the crowding, in the stress, in the water, in the air.

Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.

Hearing protection is a sound investment.

Quando um coração se fecha, faz muito mais barulho do que uma porta.

An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.

Bond had always had a loathing of opera; its absurdly large women, its histrionics, its noise. The fact that Larsen was spending his last night there was somehow fitting. He was on his way from one hell to another.

It often seems that the entire city is deliberately doing everything in its power to stop the cameras turning. Planes will fly overhead. Pneumatic drills and car alarms will burst into angry life. Police cars and ambulances will race past with their sirens blaring.

Emotions which are quickly lost in the noise and chaos of the city fester around the village square, driving people to psychosis and violence.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

You need to make people think about society in a less literal and more primal way. It's about using the least amount of sounds to make the most amount of noise and energy, and making a bass stab really feel like you've been punched in the face.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

Taking a trip with the Air Force Special Operations Wing folks is not like a flight on a normal airliner. For one thing, passengers and crew are all armed to the teeth. The seating is awful, the noise is incredible, and there is no movie. Your stewardess is likely to be a guy wearing a shoulder holster, and he will not bring you a pillow.

They were so many pink trumpet mouths yammering amidst a flutter of colorful clothing and banners.

I can say God, but that is not my God. That is only a noise and no more potent than any other noise.