Noise Quotes - Page 26

• Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen is that you actually aren't disseminating the information that you want to get across to these people.

  Drew Barrymore

  White, People, Want

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless - possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!

  Jan Frazier

  Running, Fear, Opportunity

  Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.216, Weiser Books

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• I remember thinking as I was doing the jokes for the first time, "If I can hear that very clearly, I'm not hearing laughter." It just became deafening, this buzzing noise. I mean, it was brutal. It was really terrible. Then I remember thinking, "At least nobody important, or anyone who I really respect, saw that." And then literally right when I went off the stage, Jerry Seinfeld got up and went on. So I was like, "Oh great. Seinfeld saw me bomb." On the other hand, I thought, "At least no one will be thinking of me anymore. They'll just be focusing on him."

  Seth Rogen

  Laughter, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

  Mark Nepo

  Humility, Soul, Listening

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• Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Lying, Virtue

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Night, Civilization, Taught Us

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.54, North Atlantic Books

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• That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.

  Billy Joel

  Sex, Play, Ems

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.

  Jane Goodall

  Giving Up, People, Support

  Interview with Jo Menell, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, White, People

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Suffering, Want

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Toys

  "Fictional character: Denis". "Denis Leary: Lock 'N Load", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I just want to apologise for being late. I was flying back from Spain and the air hostess said: "We are two hours late Mr Carson." When I asked why, she said: "The pilot has heard a funny noise in the engine that he doesn't like, so we are waiting on another pilot who can't hear it."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Humor

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.224, Crown Archetype

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• I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

  Marilou

  Night, Silence, Radio

  Source: sleepingbagstudios.ca

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• I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

  Chris Pronger

  Trying, Rooms, Sticks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Heart, My Heart, Songwriting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

  Thomas Moore

  Distance, Home, Garden

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• The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Alive, Body

  'Procrastination'

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• I like the noise of democracy.

  James Buchanan

  President, Democracy

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• I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

  Andrew Lang

  Flower, Book, Garden

  Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria

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• A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

  Meat Loaf

  Moving, Cameras, Locks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

  Francis Bacon

  Wings, White, Dumb

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• The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

  John Locke

  Passion, Giving, Reform

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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