Noise Quotes - Page 36

• Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Mistake, Farewell

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• Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Two, Differences

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop.

  Linda Howard

  Writing, Numbers, Found

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• I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it’s dark and you can’t see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Real, Eye, Dark

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.96, Bantam

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• Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

  Nora Roberts

  Coffee, Views, Three

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.754, Penguin

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• Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

  Neal Stephenson

  Looks, Information, Break

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.74, Spectra

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• People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

  Mira Grant

  People, Want, Matter

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Night, Air

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Brain, Months

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.599, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys. Or, not given. Given back. That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain. I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much.

  Joss Whedon

  Tired, Fighting, Years

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• For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

  John Berendt

  Cities, People, Personality

  John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage

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• After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.

  Douglas Adams

  Real, Paper, Tables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.283, Pan Macmillan

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• The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Devil, Three

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• Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.

  Dan Abnett

  Stars, Lying, Past

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• When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.

  Bill Maher

  Opportunity, People, Complaining

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• A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

  Stephen King

  Track, Whispering, Woods

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons: Four Novellas”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.

  Abbi Glines

  Moving, Sleep, Night

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• There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

  Rumi

  Peace, Passion, Eye

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

  David Levithan

  Silence, Together

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Smart, Differences, Significant

  Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (2012). “The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)”, p.72, Random House

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• A roar cut through the melee: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub. It was Alec- and suddenly bodies were flying everywhere.

  James Dashner

  Cutting, Flying, Body

  James Dashner (2013). “The Kill Order”, p.153, Chicken House

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• And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Men, Different, Might

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle of the Ninth”, p.479, Oxford University Press - Children

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• The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kissing, Moon

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

  Patrick Ness

  Eye, Cuz, Taught

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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