Quotes About Noise

It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silcence but not empty.

But you shoutet and you knocked those mixers off the shelf and there was a big crash.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.

Damned planes. Too confining, too noisy—too fucking high in the air.

Qué frío hace, pensó Eleanor infantilmente; nunca seré capaz de volver a dormir con todo este ruido surgiendo de mi cabeza; ¿cómo pueden los demás oír el ruido, si está saliendo de mi cabeza? Estoy desapareciendo centímetro a centímetro en esta casa, me estoy desmoronando cada vez un poco más porque todo este ruido me está desgajando; ¿por qué están asustados los demás?

There were massed about the table, screaming, some thirty people. Sam never remembered any of them, save Endicott Everett Atkins. The rest seemed to him as indistinguishable as separate mosquitoes in a swarm, and rather noisier. But there was nothing noisy about Mr. Endicott Everett Atkins.

Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Some have too much noise going on in their world and don't hear the whisper. Others hear, but the thought dies on the barren ground of their low self-esteem or is suffocated under the avalanche of their fears. Still others rationalize that they have too many problems or situations to face. But some know that they must put everything to one side, and, just do it.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.

I should know better than to try and measure the breadth and depth of love by its noise and dramas but there are times that I crave it, as if it's proof that love is alive.

The only noise is the engine on the medic van. It runs steadily, the broken heart of a failed enterprise.

Everything that lives makes noise. What an argument for the mineral kingdom!

Existence might well have had some attraction before the advent of noise — let us say, before the neolithic age. When will he come, the man who can rid us of all men?

Horns sounded from the trapped vehicles on the motorway, a despairing chorus.

known as the middle." He tipped his head. "Yes. What about you? Big family?" "No. I'm an only child." It was part of the backstory she'd made up before coming to the island; it was also partly true. "I used to wish I had a big family." "It's not all it's cracked up to be," he said dryly. "A lot of noise and chaos." "And love," she suggested, feeling an ache that went deep into her

I don't know why, but I felt shy and out of place in there with the noise and energy bouncing around and sheer goodness clinging to the walls of that house.

A noise came from the upstairs hall; I heard the bookshelves fall. A ghost was reading poetry to entertain us all.

Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

Any voice where you've got to scream over a battle or whatever, that's always difficult. It's harder than it seems.