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• Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fall, Squares, Bridges

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Shadow of Innsmouth”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dust, Age, Deeds

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

  Tove Styrke

  Mom, Kids, Frustrated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm making a lot of noise as I walk.

  Iris Apfel

  Walks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

  Mike Brown

  Differences, Making A Difference

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• Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Loneliness, People

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• Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

  Michelle Obama

  Knowing, Names, Mind

  Tuskegee University Commencement Address, delivered 09 May 2015, Tuskegee, Alabama

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• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Important, Might

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.

  Craig Stone

  Wall, Powerful, Moving

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• Those that govern most make least noise.

  John Selden

  John Selden (1716). “Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].”, p.91

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• It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Crazy, Guitar

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.

  Girl Talk

  College, Guy, Band

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

  David First

  Rocks, Different, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Yield, Waiting

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays (Letter to P.B.)". Book by Albert Camus, 1967.

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• If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

  Oliver Hardy

  Funny, Humorous, Quiet

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• The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tears, Departure, Youth

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lonely, Truth, Two

  Frederick William Robertson (1867). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.135

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• I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

  Quentin Crisp

  Information, Minimum, Understood

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Men, Mind, Liberty

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.198

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• My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Made, Downfall, Satisfied

  "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by A. S. Kline, (Book XXVIII, Ch. 2), 1848 - 1850.

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• Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Brain, Chance, Bones

  Ellsworth Barnard, Edwin Arlington ROBINSON (1969). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, New York Macmillan 1952.

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• In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.

  Ray Romano

  Sex, Thinking, Way

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.

  Tony Scott

  Real, Wind, Tone

  Source: collider.com

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• The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Doe, Borders, Might

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• What I'd like to have right now is for all you fat, out of shape, (insert city) sweathogs to keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show all the ladies what a real man is supposed to look like.

  Rick Rude

  Real, Men, Cities

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