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The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike. -- Dave Beard
You don't have to be noisy to be effective. -- Phil Crosby
Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed. -- Raymond Loewy
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies. -- Josiah Warren
Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude. -- Angus Young
We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird. -- Angus Young
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. -- Truman Capote
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. -- Franklin P. Jones
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. -- Mel Brooks
I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working. -- Noel Gallagher
I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere. -- Karl Pilkington
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell. -- Art Alexakis
I would not take a girl to a club on a Thursday. I would not take her to a really noisy, swanky restaurant. -- Paul Dano
I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates. -- Stacy Schiff
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. -- Fannie Hurst
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. -- Imogene Coca
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. -- Sam Houston
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. -- M. H. Abrams
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. -- Laurie Helgoe
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. -- Aristotle
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. -- Theodor Reik
It's a noisy environment we all live in, whether it's traffic or the workplace, so it's very difficult to think about your life in general. A lot of people are afraid to do that. They like to hide behind their work and not face up to a big problem in their life. -- Enya
I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche. -- John Lydon
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. -- Mel Brooks
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
Families ought to be noisy. -- Benjamin Franklin
My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt. -- Mason Cooley
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. -- James Thurber
Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful. -- Mason Cooley
The silence of the envious is too noisy. -- Khalil Gibran
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We are a noisy and blessed little family -- Nancy E. Turner
A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything -- Robert Adams
Try is a noisy way of doing nothing. -- Aristotle
How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
A noisy man is always in the right. -- William Cowper
Life is a long headache in a noisy street. -- John Masefield
Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something. -- Ken Blanchard
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age. -- Mason Cooley
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words. -- Peter Greenaway
It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron. -- Bill Bryson
In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. -- Max Ehrmann
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. -- William Wordsworth
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence. -- William Wordsworth
I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones. -- Gareth Chilcott
I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones. -- Gareth Chilcott
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. -- Arthur Golden
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. -- Joan Baez
Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. -- Rumi
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy. -- Ian Anderson
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation. -- Peter S. Prescott
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. -- Lorine Niedecker
No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain! -- Mia Sara
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED. -- Oliver Cromwell
Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy. -- Rajneesh
The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty. -- Daphne Koller
I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence. -- Bruno Monguzzi
Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven. -- Charlaine Harris
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. -- Diane Ackerman
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. -- E. O. Wilson
Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime. -- Jennifer Lee
We live in the hearts of others, where no noisy words are throbbing at the entrance door. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive. -- Raymond Loewy
God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear. -- Caryll Houselander
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. -- Henry David Thoreau
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. -- Maureen Dowd
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English. -- Jean Giono
We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow. -- Sally Quinn
Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason. -- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us -- Steve Jobs
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. -- Edward Gibbon
I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere. -- Karl Pilkington
Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this. -- H. W. L. Poonja
The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it. -- Eckhart Tolle
If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is. -- Stephen Mitchell
How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass. -- John Kremer
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. -- Louis Kronenberger
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time. -- Ted Koppel
Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed. -- Doug Rice
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication. -- Cyril Connolly
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. -- Robert Breault
For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go. -- Anthony Weiner
The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder. -- David Amerland
You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind. -- Jed Babbin
When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher. -- Joy Harjo
We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other. -- Rachel Tucker
All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence. -- Karlfried Graf Durckheim
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. -- Paul the Apostle
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. -- Paul the Apostle
The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do. -- Bill Vaughan
Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot. -- Kim Harrison
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies. -- N. T. Wright
You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke. -- Kate Ross
Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep. -- Charles M. Schulz
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come. -- A. E. Housman
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth -- Theodor Reik
Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence. -- Chris Vonada
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. -- Jerry Saltz
And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself -- Anne Sexton
The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories. -- David Gerrold
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. -- Thomas Carlyle
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. -- Max Ehrmann
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. -- Erma Bombeck
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. -- Adelaide Anne Procter
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech -- Scott Adams
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. -- Virgil
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets. -- David Nicholls

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