Noise Quotes

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

  Robert Cormier

  Heart, Cracks

  Robert Cormier (1998). “Heroes: A Novel”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

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• Silence is a still noise.

  Josh Billings

  Silence, Silence Is, Stills

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.79

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• I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

  Moby

  Goal, Elements, Performances

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• Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

  Lou Reed

  Sound, Life Is

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• Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Wall, Cubicles

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Evolve

  Edwin Way Teale (2016). “Journey Into Summer: A Naturalist’s Record of a 19,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Summer”, p.39, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

  Jay Asher

  Awareness, Get Away, Turns

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

  Sherwood Smith

  Rain, Passion, Tangled

  Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  Oscar Wilde

  Opportunity, Optimism, Complaining

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• You need the noise of your friends in space.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Space, Needs

  "Feed". Book by Matthew Tobin Anderson, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

  Robert Munsch

  Bangs

  Robert Munsch (2012). “Mortimer: Read-Aloud Edition”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

  William Cobbett

  Learning, Ideas, Mouths

  William Cobbett (1846). “A Grammar of the English Language: In a Series of Letters”, p.140

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• Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

  Moliere

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

  Steven Spielberg

  People, Crowds, Dozen

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• Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Music, Home, Silence

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• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pessimism, Form, Disruption

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• I rant and rave about noise pollution.

  Robert Carlyle

  Rave, Pollution, Rant

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

  Eric Clapton

  Grandmother, Guitar, Able

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• If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

  Hunter Hayes

  If I Could, Ifs

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• But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

  Libba Bray

  Made

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• Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Crowds

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.58, B Times

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• An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, President, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.501

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• The loudest noise in the world is silence.

  Thelonious Monk

  Silence, World

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• Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Sanity, Imposition, Noisy

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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