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Quotes About Noise

The loud, boisterous noises of the world make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The loud, boisterous noises of the world make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God. A Christian leader is called to help people hear that voice and so be comforted and consoled.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I hastened,..., back to London,...; for here you have the advantage of solitude without its disadvantage, since you may be alone and in company at the same time; and while you walk or sit unobserved, noise, hurry, and a constant succession of objects entertain the mind
~ Henry Fielding
I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.
~ Theo James
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.
~ Klaus Kinski
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
~ Randy Castillo
With the exception of maybe Vegas or Miami once or twice, other than that, it's all the same to me. I can't hear anything in the club with the loud music, so you're in there, and you're like, 'I can't hear you because of the loud music.' I hate that, yelling back and forth. And I don't drink, so it's kind of pointless.
~ Andre Iguodala
I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.
~ James McBride
I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and noise level, but, in fact, Tokyo is a very calm metropolis. The bright lights and hectic night-life images so often found in advertisements and Western media do not reflect every day Japan.
~ Min Jin Lee
If you're a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.
~ Lil Baby
There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.
~ John King
The ocean is loud: Ship propellers, sonar, oil and gas drilling and other industrial work make sounds, even if, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, no one can hear it.
~ Tatiana Schlossberg
Personally, I would go back to V12s, which make a tremendous noise, and have open cockpits and make the drivers heroes again.
~ Christian Horner
This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us
~ Steve Jobs
I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.
~ Stephen Few
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
~ Stephen Spender
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
~ Steve Burns
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
~ Jonathan Lethem
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
~ William Dean Howells
I lived with older sisters, and I'd bang pots and pans when they slept.
~ Brian Quinn
We were in Shetland for over a month so when we arrived back in Glasgow I felt quite disorientated. It was just everything, the noise, the people. It was weird that after just a month in Shetland I felt slightly assaulted by the city.
~ Douglas Henshall
It's so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you've grown in a certain way.
~ Big K.R.I.T.