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Quotes About Noise

The result was enough noise to wake the dead, one of whom started hammering on the bathroom door. "Miss Palmer. Are you all right?
~ Karen Chance
I thought you were disgusted by the people that come to my club." "They're still people." He presses the button again. "If you go outside, you will be killed. If you make noise, you will be sent outside. Don't piss me off." Just like that, Chester's goes completely silent.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When she'd finally cranked up her favorite Godsmack CD in an effort to tune him out, he'd let out a roar that had rattled the windows in her car: By all that's holy, woman, what is that hideous noise? Cease and desist! A battlefield at full charge could be no more cacophonous!
~ Karen Marie Moning
We amassed a plastic weapons cache in the hollow of the oak that included the Sounds of Warfare Blazer, a toy gun that required sixteen triple-A batteries to make a noise like a tubercular guinea pig. Those
~ Karen Russell
This state of lively tension, the jolly noise that surrounds brides, call to mind that accidentally deafening music and beating of drums by which soldiers are led into mortal combat.
~ Karolina Pavlova
Rat-a-tat-tat." "Quack."
~ Kate Angell
Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Four Observation #1: Boys don't know when to keep it down.
~ Kate Brian
Outside insects or maybe frogs were making the noise of phone calls. Vertical blinds drifted like bars being moved for a great escape. When you slapped a mosquito against the wall you shook the place.
~ Kate Camp
There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her.
~ Kate Williams
Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. The issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.
~ Gabriel Cousens
Tackling these tasks in the order we receive them is behaving as if the squeaky wheel immediately deserves the grease. But, as Australian prime minister Bob Hawke duly noted, "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.
~ Gary Keller
When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business. "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest." Bob Hawke
~ Gary Keller
She always camouflaged herself as a crowd. I've never been lonely, she said, but sometimes it's hard to think above the noise.
~ Brian Andreas
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
~ Brian Andreas
I had some information and some noise, and needed only to determine what was information and what was noise, and then determine which parts of me I should ignore and which I should listen to.
~ Brian Evenson
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
~ Brittany Snow
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
~ Bryan Ferry
obstreperously.
~ Herman Melville
Once in a while, we came in at the death of a chief 's pig; the noise of whose slaughtering was generally to be heard at a great distance. An occasion like this gathers the neighbors together, and they have a bit of a feast, where a stranger is always welcome. A good loud squeal, therefore, was music in our ears. It showed something going on in that direction.
~ Herman Melville
The noise they made was so great that sailors far out at sea thought that a terrible storm was coming. Hark to that gale howling in the East! they said.
~ Hugh Lofting
Cuddles screamed. It wasn't a braying noise, it was an ear-slapping shriek of pure donkey outrage, like someone got hold of a foghorn and tried to strangle it.
~ Ilona Andrews
You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off." "When we get out of here, I'll kick you." "You'll try.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot of laughter.
~ Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.
~ Ronan Keating