Quotes About Noise

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

And just as war is always for somebody else, so it is also true that someone else always gets killed. And Mother of God! that wasn't true either. The dreadful telegrams began to sneak sorrowfully in, and it was everybody's brother. Here we were, over six thousand miles from the anger and the noise, and that didn't save us.

Monterey is a place, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses.

The clangor of the body shop comes up softly. It's noise comforts him, tells him he is hidden and safe, that while he hides men are busy nailing the world down, and toward the disembodied sounds his heart makes in darkness a motion of love.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, & absence to value presence.

Life is so ironic to understand fully, it takes sadness to know what is happiness. noise to distinguish silent and a broken heart to find true love.

Life is so ironic, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence & absence to value presence.

Some of the foodstuffs being sold in the street, which I myself hated, were among Albertine's favorites, so that Françoise sent her kitchen-boy out to buy them, even if he perhaps felt it beneath his dignity to have to mingle in this way with the common herd. The cries sounded clearly in this quiet neighborhood, where noise was no longer a grievance for Françoise, and had become a source of pleasure to me.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

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

Siempre es más fácil destruir que construir. Mete más ruido en el bosque un árbol que cae que cien que están creciendo "; pag 25.

The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.