Noise Quotes

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.