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• The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Night, Profound

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• John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

  Brian Eno

  Cages, Appreciated, Made

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• Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.21, New World Library

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• Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sick, Abuse, Care

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• Make lots of noise
  Kiss lots of boys
  Or kiss lots of girls
  If that's something you're into
  When the straight and narrow
  Gets a little too straight
  Roll up a joint (or don't)
  Just follow your arrow
  Wherever it points.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Girl, Kissing, Boys

  "Follow Your Arrow". Song by Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves, October 21, 2013.

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• Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

  Thurston Moore

  Real, Taken, Play

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• A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were aware of a strange buzzing sound. Witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomenon have also referred to a buzzing or rushing sound shortly before the 'flying saucer' appeared over them. I am also reminded that great deal of poltergeist activity produces a preparatory 'signal' of a buzzing, rasping, or winding noise.

  Brad Steiger

  Rushing, Numbers, Flying

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• A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

  Tony Gaskins

  Real, Rivers, Deeper

  FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Sep 08, 2011

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• Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

  Hugh Jackman

  Block, Soon Enough, Ideas

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• Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Children, Heart, Human Nature

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• There is a Silence that is totally impersonal.
  It is not the fruit of anybody’s work.
  Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper.
  This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present.
  In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions.
  Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails.
  The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all.

  Mooji

  Silence, Achievement, Fruit

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• We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

  L. Tom Perry

  Voice, World, Stills

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• A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

  Facundo Cabral

  Bombs, Caress, Millions

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• You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Cat

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise

  Derrick May

  Focus, Behinds, Ifs

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• You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have turned around and thrown the world in my lap. You have told me, "Leave all things and follow me," and then You have tied half of New York to my foot like a ball and chain. You have got me kneeling behind that pillar with my mind making a noise like a bank. Is that contemplation?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, New York, Feet

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.484, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shut your noise, you old c***!

  Alan Pardew

  Football, League

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• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  Gary Numan

  Wall, Disappointment, Dark

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• I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

  Thomas Merton

  Sweet, College, Years

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sleep, Night, June

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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• This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Life, Blooming, Whirlwind

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.115, Library of America

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• We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

  Leigh Hunt

  Water, Delight, Carp

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.270

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• Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

  Honor Harger

  Couple, Half, Levels

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• 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. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Real, Feelings

  "Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1995.

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