Quotes About Noise

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.

Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.

Melody meant almost nothing. Aggression, rhythm, and texture were all. The key was noise.

The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea.

The chief problem with environmental noise one can't control is that it's impossible to ignore. The human body is designed to react to it.

He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber.

if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

There was such a dense concentration of American energy there, American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

Leaf blowers have taken a world which was, on the whole, a decent place to live, in spite of talk radio, and turned it into a noisy and unpleasant vale filled with atomized bits of vegetal detritus.

What kind of idiot bird sings in the middle of the night?... I wish it'd shut up and let me sleep! - Pirra

How could one help being nervous in this mind-expanding universe, in which the emerging universe would threaten to change unrecognizably in the course of a generation? How could one avoid the ambient fear of all the noise and speed and light and steam? Humans had never been exposed to such phenomona; they had not learned yet to tolerate them.

There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Puheesi on kuin kärpäsen surinaa korvissani.

Tus palabras son como un zumbido de moscas en mis oídos

Eleven years into this, I am able to sleep through any amount of noise and temperature. Sometimes I wake up and hope I slept through a Walking Dead–type zombie apocalypse and I have to lead humans into a new world order.

Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!

The Voice of silence is louder than any Noise.

Aris. Certainly, your prudence is excessively rare. Are you not ashamed of your want of firmness? and is it possible for a man to be so weak as to leave his wife absolute power, and not dare to attack what she has resolved upon? Ch. Good Heavens! brother, you speak very easily of it, but you do not know how noise troubles me. I am  very fond of rest, peace, and tranquillity, and my wife is terrible in her tempers.

Silence does not need to be praised, as it will disturb it or add unnecessary noise.

These children, she thought. This generation will all be deaf by thirty.