Noise Quotes - Page 27

• From out the throng and stress of lies,
  From out the painful noise of sighs,
  One voice of comfort seems to rise:
  "It is the meaner part that dies."

  William Morris

  Stress, Lying, Voice

  "Comfort". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", en.wikisource.org. 1922.

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• I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Morning, Memories, Night

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• Matching sounds in your head is made a lot easier with all the technology. It is the nonelectronic noises that are challenging, as you have to find ways of communicating those to the people you're working with.

  Scott Walker

  Technology, People, Challenges

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.

  David Fincher

  Smart, Believe, Fighting

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• In Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

  Mac DeMarco

  Country, Crazy, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.

  Sebastian Horsley

  People, Listening, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Healthy, Pages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some outside party comes around and makes too much noise or pokes around the nest too intrusively - well, that's what it's like for me if I show work too early and I get a lot of editorial suggestions at the wrong time.

  Donna Tartt

  Party, Eggs, Bird

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

  Russell Simmons

  Art, Form, Music Is

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

  Bruce Eckel

  Python, Lines, Perl

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• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Team, Fighting

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• Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Powerful, Ascent, Path

  Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr

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• Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

  Nate Silver

  Keys, Data, Patterns

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• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, White, Machines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Writing, Simple

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise.

  Vito Acconci

  Typewriters, Sound, Hearing

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

  Christina Baldwin

  Voice, Self, Stories

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.14, New World Library

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• Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Matter, Compare

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• I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.

  Jenova Chen

  Mean, Player, Emotional

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• The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lakes, Silence, Forests

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• A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

  Alan Beck

  Dream, Hope, Art

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• Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Here I Am, Long

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• People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response.

  Bill Bryson

  Running, Rain, Issues

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• A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Rich, Enough

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