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Quotes About Noises

He could hear noises of a pet inside the apartment, one too small to bark like a real dog.
~ Carol O'Connell
Tourette's has always been a tough one for many to digest because of its seeming irrationality: 'Why do you have to twitch or make noises? You seem normal, with no physical defects.' It's next to impossible to answer without living it.
~ Dash Mihok
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.
~ Jennifer McMahon
I'm always like this with a new movie role. I always get super-defensive and make noises like a rooster, Maybe that's because I spent so much time as a chorus girl.
~ Teri Garr
That be the jealousy talking, Gator said, in no way perturbed. I can't help the way the women love me. I was born with the gift. The men hooted and made rude noises. You were born with a gift of bullshitting. Sam pointed out, but that's about it. He looked at Dahlia. Pardon me, ma'am, but its the truth. I rather thought it was, she agreed.
~ Christine Feehan
If you didn't have a real good imagination you'd probably think those noises were the sounds of some kid blowing a horn for the first time, but I knew better than that. I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
I have talked to many people who say that they live in homes that are haunted. One of the most common things that they describe is how days or months will go by without any activity. Then out of the blue they see apparitions or hear footsteps and strange noises, when no one else is around.
~ Larry Wilson
All I heard were the bumps and crunches of my tires on the dirt road, blending with the dark noises of the forest. But it wasnt the forest that scared me. It was the people who lived and prowled within them.
~ Lauren Myracle
Chapter VII Dragon's Tail The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound! The earth's crust can be compared to a cracked eggshell consisting of tectonic plates
~ Laurence Bergreen
I've lived here all my life and it's a fascinating part of the world. There are so many legends and fairy stories about it - spooks and demons and witches. That's natural, I suppose, considering the landscape. You can go out on a foggy morning and imagine that you're the only human being in the world, but you can hear weird animal noises quite close by and see shadows flitting around, behind the fog
~ Graham Masterton
One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
~ Temple Grandin
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
~ Annie Dillard
Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises.
~ Florian Schneider
I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked.
~ Michael Dell
I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Now, remember: they're not for eating, but for listening, because you'll often be hungry for sounds as well as food. Here are street noises at night, train whistles from a long way off, dry leaves burning, busy department stores, crunching toast, creaking bed springs, and of course, all kinds of laughter. There's a little of each, and in far off, lonely places, I think you will be glad to have them.
~ Norton Juster
Mine is the apartment that receives all noises, even from the basement below. For one hundred and ten dollars a month, I feel as if I live inside a radio.
~ Colum McCann
Orion's butt used to be a tuba," said Rigel, "and that's why it makes those noises.
~ Laurie Frankel
when someone spoke it startled me enough that I made several involuntary noises, a phrase which here means "sounds without meaning to." Involuntary noises are my least favorite kind of noise I can make. If I'm going to sound foolish I would at least like to have done it on purpose.
~ Lemony Snicket
Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
~ Jane Austen
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
~ Jane Austen
As she moved swiftly and noiselessly through the vast palace cellar, odd noises weltered toward her. Voices and echoes of water rippled through the air as if, in some magic chamber, whales and dolphins cavorted among young maidens in great tanks of water. When she reached it, all the fish turned into laundry, stirred and beaten in steaming cauldrons by glum, limp-haired women as wet as mackerels.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of an justified religious beliefs. – Sam Harris
~ Dan Brown
In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things.
~ Apparat