Noise Quotes - Page 9

• There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die."

  Harriette Simpson Arnow

  Flower, Summertime, Bitter Cold

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• We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Over You, Sorrow

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness".

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• The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.

  Joost Meerloo

  Two, Differences, Mind

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• I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Refreshing, Complaints

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books

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• A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

  Antonio Porchia

  Silence

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Confused, Love Life

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Feb 23, 2013

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• PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Toys, Irritating

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Dog, Children, Moving

  Alberto Santos-Dumont, (2013). “My Air-Ships”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

  Noah Cicero

  Pain, Half, Scream

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• There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!

  Ian St John

  Anfield

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• The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.

  Niall Horan

  Nerves, Crowds, Calm

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• I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.

  Keren Ann

  Art, Ideas, Knowing

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• Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

  Seth Godin

  Impact, Doe, Differentiation

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• A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Years, Europe, Organization

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• I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

  Kim Thayil

  Guitar, Play, Way

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• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

  George Gilder

  Risk, Return, Paradigm

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• And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

  Esther Duflo

  Data, World, Lines

  "The Poverty Lab". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. May 17, 2010.

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• One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise.

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

  Believe, Innovation, Want

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• Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

  Israel Houghton

  Hater, Deep Thought, Hearing

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• We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them.

  Martin Prechtel

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Couple

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• However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

  Michael Foley

  Believe, Silence, Solitude

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Attitude, Essence, Style

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• No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!

  Pepper Adams

  Player, Should, Baritones

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