Noise Quotes - Page 38

• Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Paris, Bird

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.183, Penguin UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Sharks, Sea

  7 Copy quote

• The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Writing, Media

  6 Copy quote

• In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Real, Reading, Bombarded By

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Joy, Mindfulness

  84 Copy quote

• I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. "Were you talking to me or Ronan?" "Either. I'm flexible." Blue made a small, terrible noise. "I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Talking, Psychics

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Shadow, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise. “Smoke and fire,” she said. “Clanging on metal all day long. You’re scaring away the birds!” “Oh, no, not the birds!

  Rick Riordan

  Fire, Long, Bird

  4 Copy quote

• Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before—just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.

  Rick Riordan

  Simple, Background Noise, Water

  4 Copy quote

• People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Anger, Fighting, Names

  4 Copy quote

• We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dream, Hero, Being Alone

  17 Copy quote

• Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Worship

  21 Copy quote

• I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

  George Gershwin

  Music, Heart, Gershwin

  Letter to Isaac Goldberg in "The Memory of All That" by Joan Peyser (p. 80), 1993.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Children, Mind

  "Music Is My Mistress". Book by Duke Ellington, 1973.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

  John Heywood

  Music, Nature, Silence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Fun, Winning

  21 Copy quote

• It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sad, I Miss You, Missing You

  8 Copy quote

• The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Voice, Acting, Mere

  7 Copy quote

• To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Cities, Giving

  24 Copy quote

• All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.

  Fyodor Tyutchev

  Yoga, Light, Soul

  20 Copy quote

• Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

  67 Copy quote

• When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Laughter, Hands

  8 Copy quote

• I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggguulliing...We're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!

  Joe Namath

  Sports, Team, Kissing

  6 Copy quote

• Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Done

  10 Copy quote

• It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Lying, Hard Work, Ideas

  52 Copy quote