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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me. -- Salman Rushdie
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. -- Pierre Schaeffer
Noises are like arrows pierced to a gentle soul when the mind is on a journey of thought -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. -- John Lydon
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. -- Samuel Johnson
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. -- Emily Carr
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. -- Moliere
I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth. -- Cara Delevingne
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. -- Sam Harris
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. -- Alfred Korzybski
My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. -- Steven Wright
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. -- Cyril Connolly
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises. -- Jasmine Guinness
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises. -- David Ogden Stiers
One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. -- Temple Grandin
On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening. -- Eddie Van Halen
Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises. -- Darby Stanchfield
If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises. -- Joss Stone
Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. -- Jeff Greenfield
I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked. -- Michael Dell
I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day. -- Tara Strong
I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day. -- Kate Beckinsale
Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me. -- Kevin Powers
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. -- Henry Rollins
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover. -- Seth Shostak
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. -- Cherie Lunghi
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me. -- Sebastian Junger
On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage. -- Ellie Goulding
Jet ski and wild noises. -- DJ Khaled
Unexplained noises are best left unexplained. -- John Bellairs
Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere. -- Margaret Wise Brown
Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers. -- Meg Cabot
Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises. -- C. E. M. Joad
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises. -- William Shakespeare
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises... -- H. P. Lovecraft
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises. -- Iggy Pop
Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises. -- Ambrose Bierce
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters. -- Jane Austen
It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes. -- Kid Koala
It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes. -- Kid Koala
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. -- Antonin Artaud
Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection. -- Michael J. Gelb
Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right. -- John Lydon
I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me. -- Jermell Charlo
When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises. -- Ella Henderson
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude. -- John Clare
We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises. -- Cyril Connolly
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me. -- Hugh Hopper
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. -- Sylvia Porter
The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. -- Arthur Symons
Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises. -- Darby Stanchfield
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises. -- Kristin Cashore
If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something. -- Billy Crystal
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open -- T. S. Eliot
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath. -- David Levithan
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. -- Tim Ferriss
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. -- Annie Dillard
I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new. -- Nick Lowe
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) -- Norma Fox Mazer
I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise. -- Kim Thayil
Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises. -- Anne Sexton
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air. -- Charles Baudelaire
Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises. -- Will Rogers
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? -- Rudyard Kipling
I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. -- Chris Pronger
If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents. -- Doug Stanhope
Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am. -- Learned Hand
I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently. -- Kevin Hearne
If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed. -- Darren Shan
Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company. -- Mark Lynas
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane -- James Lafferty
I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises. -- Taylor Momsen
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. -- Edith Wharton
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer. -- Eleanor Brown
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. -- Jane Austen
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic. -- Jennifer McMahon
No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness. -- A.S. Neill
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music. -- Pierre Schaeffer
Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around. -- J. K. Rowling
None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions. -- S. I. Hayakawa
The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that goes ahead. We had a riot filming it. -- Tony Curran
At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape. -- Willard Wigan
In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. -- Alejandro Amenabar
In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. -- Alejandro Amenabar
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People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives. -- Andy Warhol
My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises -- Terence McKenna
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude. -- John Clare
The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever. -- David Hewson
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech. -- Richard Griffiths
I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead. -- David Sedaris
When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8. -- Alicia Silverstone
With practice, INTJs become skilled at nodding and making responsive noises at appropriate times,while internally wondering whether dolphins have language or thinking about how Star Wars breaksthe laws of physics. -- Anna Moss
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear. -- Thomas A. Edison
There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. -- Jonathan Shapiro
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants? -- Plutarch
It was a very interesting challenge [Heihei role] because he's limited to rooster-y, chicken-type noises, and he goes along on the whole adventure. It just becomes, "If that's how you express yourself, go for it. -- Alan Tudyk

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