Noise Quotes - Page 30

• Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Nice, Sleep, People

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• What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Math, Skulls

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• If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

  Judith Martin

  Sex, Children, Revenge

  "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior". Book by Judith Martin, 1982.

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• When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket.

  Nina Dobrev

  Eye, Bags, Checks

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• In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fall, Angel, Rocks

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1908). “The Text of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius”

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• One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

  Henry Rollins

  World, Festivals, Genres Of Music

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• I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

  Billy Crystal

  Hearing, Scared

  "Billy Crystal for 'Monsters Inc.'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 1, 2001.

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• I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Numbers, People, Risk

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

  Doug Stanhope

  Mean, Parent, Mouths

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• Lady, if you laugh and you don't make a noise, you're a shaker, and it's freaking me out.

  Christopher Titus

  Laughing, Shakers, Ifs

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• My dad's been having a hard time lately. Keeps on losing his keys. Can't hang on to a set of keys to save his life. And he has tried everything too: little hook next to the door, little bowl next to his bed, keychain makes a noise when you whistle. Nothing worked. So finally, this year for his birthday, the whole family chipped in - and we put him in a home.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Dad, Home, Hard Times

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• Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don't have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there's a noise.

  Dana Gould

  Perfect, Pet, Pants

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 27, 2013

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• The difference, generally speaking, between sportbike people and cruiser people is that sportbike people like performance skill and wear safety gear; cruisers like chrome, noise, and style. It's funny to me to separate them because I ride both. I prefer performance cruisers like the Honda Valkyrie I had or my Triumph Rocket III.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Skills, Differences, People

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• ... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

  Lev Manovich

  Photography, Loss, Technology

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• You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.

  Burk Uzzle

  Hair, Perfection, Fleeting

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• I have come to you, Jesus, to take your touch before I begin my day. Let your eyes rest upon my eyes for a while let me take to my work the assurance of your friendship. Fill my mind to last through the desert of noise. Let your blessed sunshine fill the peaks of my thoughts. And give me strength for those who need me.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Flower, Light

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• You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Heart, Three

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

  William Shakespeare

  Tempest, Isle, Caliban

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [147]

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• I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material.

  John Rzeznik

  Fun, Thinking, Band

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• When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Sex, School, Dark

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.

  Shane McCrae

  White, Would Be, Accepting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

  Nikki Sixx

  Buddhist, Silence, Ironic

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• We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. When things pile sky-high on top of each other, I try to take a moment to: breathe, smile, repeat. This mantra helps me align to the reality outside of the superfluous noise.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Reality, Sky, Growth

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• The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.

  Jim Wallis

  Prayer, Break Through, Discipline

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