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Quotes About Noise

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.
~ Graham Swift
Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.
~ Luigi Russolo
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
~ Mark Twain
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
~ Moliere
And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
~ Patrick Ness
so efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise
~ Neal Stephenson
As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
~ Neal Stephenson
Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer's part, that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better. Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel does this morning, is the mark of the mature sufferer who no longer nurses, nor is nursed by, any such comfortable delusions.
~ Neal Stephenson
Occasionally a red taxi or Mercedes-Benz would squeeze by along the iron fence and burst free, the driver holding down the horn button so furiously that he might detonate the air bag.
~ Neal Stephenson
But if you use shortwave, then you can bounce the information off the ionosphere. This works a good deal better when the sun is not in the sky, sluicing the atmosphere with wideband noise. So radio telegraphers, and the people who eavesdrop on them (what the Brits call the Y Service) are, alike, nocturnal beings.
~ Neal Stephenson
A woman with a huge angry short-haired tabby in her arms came through from the surgery. The newly named Lucy's fur rose. She made a noise that suggested she had come to the boil. The tabby suddenly let out a yell. Dogs made ambiguous comments in their throats. "Oh Lor'!" said the newcomer. She grinned at Mr. Whipplestone. "Better make ourselves scarce," she said, and to her indignant cat: "Shut up, Bardolph, don't be an ass.
~ Ngaio Marsh
Love is Noise. Love is silence. In love you're human. In love you possess magical powers. In love you shelter yourself. In love, you expose yourself.
~ Nicholas Mosley
But there was no gangrene or amputations like the doctors threatened, and we got a B, so I don't see what all the noise and counseling was about. Anyway
~ Christopher Moore
It's like trying to herd a flock of geese," said Orik. "They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they'll bite your hand first chance they get.
~ Christopher Paolini
We should proceed with caution," whispered Wyrden. Angela made a faint noise in her throat. "How else were you planning to proceed? With blaring trumpets and shouting heralds? Really." The elf refrained from answering.
~ Christopher Paolini
Rischiamo di restare sommersi da un eccesso di informazioni, e la differenza tra il silenzio e il troppo rumore è davvero minima
~ Umberto Eco
In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with us an unbearable repartee, we drown out its voice in amusements, distractions, and noise. If we met ourselves in others, we would hate them.
~ Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
This will be a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~ Kristin Hannah
white! Total overload! The hangar sounds
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
~ Cassandra Clare
But it is one thing to transmit the divine through a blasting storm of holy noise, another thing entirely to write a history forged from human voices, imperfect memories, self-interested accounts.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
No todo lo que grita más fuerte es lo más perentorio.
~ Gordon MacDonald