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Quotes About Noise

Ah, there is no city that gives off so much noise and such a clamor as Naples.
~ Elena Ferrante
In the next chapter, we shall look at some aspects of 'sensory deprivation'. As noise abatement enthusiasts have discovered, its opposite, sensory overload, is a largely disregarded problem. The current popularity of techniques like 'transcendental meditation' may represent an attempt to counterbalance the absence of silence and solitude which the modern urban environment inflicts upon us.
~ Anthony Storr
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
~ Antonio Porchia
Fools hear to the outer noise, Wise listens to the inner voice.
~ Anuj Somany
The more the news makes noise from all sides, the bigger the size of lies hidden in it especially when many so-called experts give views and panelist reviews it.
~ Anuj Somany
But, if we let it, technology can also add a lot of noise and distraction that get in the way of our most fundamental creative capabilities—instead of freeing us, it can consume us. What
~ Arianna Huffington
My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.
~ Charo
I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.
~ will.i.am
My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
~ Dan Fogler
God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.
~ Mother Angelica
We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
~ Vicente del Bosque
I became a real racing nerd - I knew all the drivers and talked about karting all the time. I wanted to have a go, but when I got into a kart the noise scared me. I was also worried that I wouldn't be able to control the brake with my foot.
~ Nicolas Hamilton
Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
With the new morning, however, there came unto me a new truth: then did I learn to say: Of what account to me are market-place and populace and populace-noise and long populace- ears!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
el ruido no necesita la lectura.
~ Gabriel Zaid
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
~ Lee Konitz
It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there's some kind of order within that chaos.
~ Farhan Akhtar
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
~ Mark Twain
On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.
~ Richard Ernst
In general, signalling theory says that if you have a good way of proving something and a noisy way of proving something, and you choose the noisy way, that means chances are it's because you couldn't do the good way in the first place.
~ Vitalik Buterin
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
~ James Blake
It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Catalina oía, desde su desvalimiento, las carreras y los gritos, el caracolear de los caballos, los cacareos agudos, los gañidos agónicos de los cerdos. Carcajadas brutales se mezclaban con los débiles estertores y el llanto de los niños seguía al estruendo de muebles derribados, de trastos rotos, de telas desgarradas.
~ Rosario Castellanos
And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff