Quotes About Noise

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does — but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

Leaf-blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, but that's normal, because a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can, here in Europe, on radio and television—in fact, have just returned from a land, Germany, which was made notorious by a silent majority not so very long ago.

They knew that no one heard, that bloodless people cannot be made to bleed. So they blew what everyone had heard before, they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening, and the people at the tables found it pleasant to shout over this stunning corroboration and the people at the bar, under cover of the noise they could scarcely have lived without, pursued whatever it was they were after.

mandelbrot changed the way ibm's engineers thought about the cause of noise. bursts of errors had always sent the engineers looking for a man sticking a screwdriver somewhere.

Every natural language has redundancy built in; this is why people can understand text riddled with errors and why they can understand conversation in a noisy room.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

The Besiktas fans are very passionate. When you go out onto the pitch the noise coming from the stands always hits you.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

I believe that I am unclean and will harm those I care about the most and that there is too much noise in my head and that I am so goddamned tired.

she scrubbed floors on her knees with a contemptuous hissing noise which must have come from her brush, though it seemed to come out of herself.