Quotes About Noise

Some people are in the habit of complaining about everything; even about the noise made by opportunity that knocks on the door.

The roar of an angry crowd is much louder than that of a lion.

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

What eggs?" Maggie Rose asked. "Come on, I'll show you." Mr. Swanson took us toward a big wooden box in the middle of the parking lot. It had some bushes and flowers growing inside it. "A goose laid some eggs right in this planter," Mr. Swanson said. "But a couple of days ago, some men were here fixing potholes in the parking lot, and I guess the noise scared her. She flew away and never came back.

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.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.

reason, my radiator makes a lot of banging and groaning. But

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane

What in the hell is going on around here?" she yelled. "Could you guys keep it down to aircraft-carrier noise?

When he turns his attention once more to Katie, he makes a noise that in part is an expression of distress

According to the EPA, all the booming was—I quote—'only mechanical sonic devices that simulate

Not knowing what else to try, she got out her heavy cast-iron skillet and banged it against the top of the rad in hopes of reviving the ageing pipes. The noise was deafening, vibrating through the room like a jet aircraft crashing through the sound barrier.

Jamie replied with what I had come to think of as a "Scottish noise," that indeterminate sound made low in the throat that can be interpreted to mean almost anything. This particular noise seemed to indicate some doubt as to the likelihood of such a desirable outcome.

There were a few faint echoes from the common room two floors below, and a brief flurry of noise and movement, but this served only to emphasize my own isolation.

It occurred to me, listening to the chorus, that men in a hospital ward seldom really snore. Breathe heavily, yes. They gasp, groan occasionally, and sometimes sob or cry out in sleep. But there was no comparison to this healthy racket. Perhaps it was that sick or injured men could not sleep deeply enough to relax into that sort of din.

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

Only Fools made the sound

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Ik vraag of ze de muziek af wil zetten. Er is al zoveel lawaai op de wereld.