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  • Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. -- Bennett Cerf
  • We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. -- Mother Teresa
  • Noise: a stench in the ear. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Noise makes no good, good makes no noise. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Noise is the art of talking without walking -- Constance Chuks Friday
  • Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. -- Milan Kundera
  • Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed. -- Raymond Loewy
  • Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. -- Margaret Heffernan
  • Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty. -- Veronica Roth
  • Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. -- Joan Baez
  • In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else. -- Mickey Hart
  • In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men. -- Luigi Russolo
  • Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise. -- Edwin Way Teale
  • Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas! -- Jonathan Larson
  • Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!. -- Jonathan Larson
  • Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain
  • And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops. -- Patrick Ness
  • That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever. -- Patrick Ness
  • You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. -- Robert Fripp
  • Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere. -- William H. Stewart
  • Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. -- Robert Orben
  • Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious. -- Kevin Barry
  • Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing. -- Jarvis Cocker
  • I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face. -- Boyd Rice
  • People who make no noise are dangerous. -- Jean de La Fontaine
  • It's very clean. With tape, you get noise. -- Herb Alpert
  • You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation. -- James Daly
  • We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. -- Daisy Berkowitz
  • He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. -- William Dean Howells
  • We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise. -- Freddie Mercury
  • I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise. -- Joe E. Lewis
  • How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? -- Babe Ruth
  • Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. -- Kevin J. Anderson
  • Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. -- George Steiner
  • True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise. -- Roz Chast
  • To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. -- Mark Twain
  • Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. -- Sun Tzu
  • The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
  • In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. -- Len Deighton
  • Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what you're not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
  • When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. -- Paula Poundstone
  • To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? -- Federico Fellini
  • An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around. -- Debbie Ford
  • 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. -- Ritchie Blackmore
  • All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming. -- Roger Daltrey
  • The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. -- Ernest Shackleton
  • In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. -- Luigi Russolo
  • Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you. -- Earl Sweatshirt
  • There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth. -- Gary Busey
  • Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. -- Lester Bangs
  • Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
  • Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
  • It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. -- Russell Baker
  • Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart -- Lady Gaga
  • Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important. -- Marcus Brigstocke
  • I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. -- Tiger Woods
  • There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant. -- Drake
  • 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
  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. -- Steve Jobs
  • 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. -- Louis C. K.
  • I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another. -- Pippa Middleton
  • The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. -- John Battelle
  • People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids. -- John Schneider
  • To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body. -- Jenson Button
  • noise is a pollution. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Silence is a still noise. -- Josh Billings
  • Full purse makes no noise. -- Juhani Peltonen
  • Reduce intellectual and emotional noise -- Richard Brautigan
  • Shut your noise, you old c***! -- Alan Pardew
  • I like the noise of democracy. -- James Buchanan
  • Most art is just surface noise. -- Walter Darby Bannard
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  • Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice
  • Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise. -- Neal Stephenson
  • Those that govern most make least noise. -- John Selden
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  • Calumny is only the noise of madmen. -- Diogenes
  • I rant and rave about noise pollution. -- Robert Carlyle
  • I must forgive without noise or fuss. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • Rock stars are good at making noise. -- Bono
  • Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck -- Barry Cryer
  • The noise is greater then the nuts. -- George Herbert
  • The more noise, the higher I get. -- Ed Belfour
  • One person's data is another person's noise. -- K.C. Cole
  • Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I think there's something strangely musical about noise. -- Trent Reznor
  • ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence. -- A.P.
  • The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • Some say silence is golden, I choose noise! -- Blake Lewis
  • I think theres something strangely musical about noise. -- Trent Reznor
  • The loudest noise in the world is silence. -- Thelonious Monk
  • I wanted to make noise, not study theory. -- James Hetfield
  • Don't buy the toys that make the noise! -- Denis Leary
  • A thief never makes a noise by accident. -- Megan Whalen Turner
  • Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise. -- W. C. Fields
  • We take our last look at the killing noise. -- Jimi Hendrix
  • I'm making a lot of noise as I walk. -- Iris Apfel
  • Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference. -- Mike Brown
  • Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise. -- Bruce Eckel
  • Work hard in silence, let success be your noise. -- Frank Ocean
  • If you must make a noise, make it quietly. -- Oliver Hardy
  • The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation. -- Russell Simmons
  • God loves the noise as much as the signal. -- Lewis M. Branscomb
  • You need the noise of your friends in space. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • there is no noise louder than a silent phone. -- Lois Wyse
  • We like no noise unless we make it ourselves. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
  • A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I frequently hear music in the heart of noise. -- George Gershwin
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