Quotes About Noise

A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

If I were queen for a day, every city would have to spend one hour in utter silence: no music in shops and restaurants, no honking of horns, no conversations on mobile phones. Only birds would be allowed to sing.

I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

I am not a fan of supermarkets and I hate shopping there, even for things I can't get elsewhere, like cat food and bin bags. A big part of my dislike of them is the loss of vivid life. The dull apathy of existence now isn't just boring jobs and boring TV; it is the loss of vivid life on the streets; the gossip, the encounters, the heaving messy noise that made room for everyone, money or not.

Dünyan?n gürültüsü beni sersem ediyor, yaln?zl?k içimi s?k?yordu; boyuna yer deÄŸiÅŸtirmek gereÄŸini duymakta, hiçbir yerde rahat etmemekteydim.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music.

I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.

Definitely, as an Indian, I'm seen as an outsider, and definitely, the jeers come from that. But I enjoy it; I even encourage it. Whatever noise they make when I'm in the ring, it motivates me, drives me to do better.

Filming in India was very special. The chaos, the noise, and the sensory overload was all really wonderful. It was a new world to me, and being able to capture that was incredible.

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it's not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That's literature's USP: staying unresolved, keeping its most vital messages unspoken, creating a zone of noise where everything and nothing is said at the same time.

Surplus matter. I'd forgotten all about that phrase, those classes -- even before the accident, I mean. After the accident I forgot everything. It was as though my memories were pigeons and the accident a big noise that had scared them off. They fluttered back eventually -- but when they did, their hierarchy had changed, and some that had had crappy places before ended up with better ones; I remembered them more clearly; they seemed more important.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

Marbled with static like gristly meat.

So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.

Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!" "SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!" the chickens shrilled back.

Then a terrifying roar split the air,

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.