Quotes About Noise

The one-horned rhinoceros, or "rhino," washes in a forest stream. Rhinos are not usually dangerous. But because they do not see well, they sometimes charge at things by mistake. A loud noise will usually stop them.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

He made a habit of prattling at the top of his lungs through Sunday dinners at our house. Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

Even now I probably think more than the normal about water, floating in it, just the color blue itself and how for the fish, that blue is the whole deal. Air and noise and people and our all-important hectic nonsense, a minor irritant if even that.

You can get to a point of needing to make the loudest possible noise just to see if you are still alive.

An indistinct cacophony blanketed the area like fog: people shouting into mobile phones, street-stall hawkers exhorting potential customers, cars and horns and jackhammers. A couple of pigeons soared from one rooftop to another, flapping their wings in seeming laughter at the seething mass below.

Ring! he shrieked at the vapid instrument.

Her research suggests a paradoxical truth about innovation: good ideas are more likely to emerge in environments that contain a certain amount of noise and error.

That is often how new ideas come into the world: someone perceives a signal where others would instinctively perceive noise.

A good idea has to be correct on some basic level, and we value good ideas because they tend to have a high signal-to-noise ratio. But that doesn't mean you want to cultivate those ideas in noise-free environments, because noise-free environments end up being too sterile and predictable in their output. The best innovation labs are always a little contaminated.

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.

Habituation is a form of nonassociative learning because it involves a single stimulus that has an innate or otherwise preexisting capacity to affect behavior. For example, a loud noise elicits a startle reflex the first time it occurs, but this ability weakens with repetition. Extinction,

Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.

Even the kits were affected, boldly playing at rat attacks during the day, but scurrying back to the nursery at any unexpected noise. But

We will be soon," Brook promised. "And that noise was only a branch." She let out a soft mrrow, a mixture of sympathy and amusement. "Trees don't sneak up on you.

Dogs were noisy nuisances

You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.

Human culture: a kind of incessant ringing in the ears.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.