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Quotes About Noise

Shit Bug said, his face sour. It's that thing again. We've been dealing with it since Pierce. You think you have a lead and then poof - he made a puffing motion with his fingers - it melts into nothing and all you have is frustration and the far noise your face makes when you hit you desk with it. Fart.... what?
~ Ilona Andrews
Around me, the morning traffic neighed, brayed, and defecated on the street.
~ Ilona Andrews
all you have is frustration and the fart noise your face makes when you hit your desk with it.
~ Ilona Andrews
I gotta split." Slightly deeper, male. Heard it somewhere before. "You promised!" "The magic's cresting, okay? Gotta split." Young voices. A boy and a girl, talking street. The only available door hung crooked and would make noise when I tried to open it. I kicked the door in and walked inside.
~ Ilona Andrews
Because whatever I hear outside, cars scrunching down the narrow, council-house streets, sometimes sweeping their headlights across this fusty old room, drunks challenging or serenading the world, or the rending shrieks of cats taking their torturous pleasures, I know I won't hear that noise.
~ Irvine Welsh
There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It's the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that's why they get noticed.
~ Isabel Allende
Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.
~ Isabel Allende
Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.
~ Isabel Allende
C'è molta gente buona, Irina, ma è discreta. I cattivi, invece, fanno molto rumore, per questo si notano di più.
~ Isabel Allende
Parece que todos los hombres de su familia han sido de buen corazón, Alma. Hay poca gente así en este mundo. - Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.
~ Isabel Allende
Tengo mil preguntas que hacerle, pero temo que cuando pueda contestarme ya habrá olvidado cómo era el cielo... Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.
~ Isabel Allende
la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.
~ Isabel Allende
My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.
~ Isabel Allende
There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.
~ Isabel Allende
It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
~ Gary Busey
At a high level there's always gonna be noise and rumors, whether it's fake stories or real ones. You've got to be able to block that out and zone in and focus on the task at hand.
~ Caleb Plant
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
~ Mark Twain
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
~ Samuel L. Clemens
The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more exposing. Actually controlling the instrument, using proper vibrato, bending notes in tune, not fretting too hard, controlling the noise is a skill in itself that takes many years.
~ John Petrucci
It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.
~ Rob Sheffield
I often go into shops and ask them to turn the music down.
~ Julian Treasure
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
~ Jean Arp
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
~ Luc Ferrari
One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.
~ Glenn Branca