Quotes About Noise

it to the bottom. It clattered and rattled all the way down

After such mornings he returned to the show with relief. It eased him to push through the crowds of people. The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves.

Ears are boring

The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.

Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains and the sea. They bore through silent nature in every direction with their machines, for fear that the calm world might accuse them of their own emptiness.

We do not know we are full of paradise because we are so full of our own noise that we cannot hear God singing us and all things into being.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

Wars have a way of overriding the days just before them. In the looking back, there is such noise and gravity. But we are conditioned to forget. So thet the war may have importance, yes, but stil... isn't the hidden machinery easier to see in the days leading up to the event. There are arrangements, things to be expedited... and often the edges are apt to lift, briefly, and we see things we were not meant to...

He made a tck noise in the back of his throat. It expressed all sorts of annoyance and impatience, with just a smidgen of an implied eye roll.

The bad wheel creaks the most.

The noise kept up and did not stop. My head rang. I saw Shepherd take the chewing gum from his mouth, break it into two, and stick it in both ears. He kept working.

The sound of the discharge within the cab was so loud, all Joe could hear was a dull buzzing in his ears.

Sleep was a bumpy road for Willie that night. In between dozing and leaning out the window to plead with Booboo to be quiet, Willie was kept awake by his dog's howls, yowls, whines, whimpers, barks, yips, and moans. Booboo's range of loud noises was impressive.

If you're not careful, the viola can make the most awful screech,

Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Recovering authentic Christian spirituality does not require producing a new message. Nor does it mean joining the cacophony of our culture. Instead, recovering authentic Christianity requires increasing the clarity and power of the signal so it can be heard over the background noise.

J.C.'s friends sometimes wondered why her father was making all that noise. J.C. told them not to worry. That was just her father at work.

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that's the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn't change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till they make a noise.

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.

You didn't tell me you were the Consort, I growled. I haven't been the Consort for 9 years. I didn't think you were a shapeshifter, but now I see it, Thomas said. You sound like one. Behind me Andre made a strangled noise that sounded a lot like an aborted snicker.

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.