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• The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Dust, Cities

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• There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

  Suzy Kassem

  Drumming, Causes, Willing

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• Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

  Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  Voice, Arrows, Bird

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• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  Michael Frayn

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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• People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

  Richard Adams

  People, Bird, Records

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.112, Oneworld Publications

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• A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Favors, May

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.90, Anchor

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• How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad.
  How sweet is yesterday's noise

  Charles Wright

  Sweet, Past, Yesterday

  Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Cutting, Tunes, Action

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• And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.

  Mark Haddon

  Distance, Father, Fall

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• The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Song, Spring, Math

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• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

  Edmund Burke

  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

  Michael Eisner

  Views, Background Noise, Appreciate

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• A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Vines, Deeds

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (6), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  Zedd

  Song, Sound, Want

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• In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.

  Jacques Attali

  Dream, Men, Sound

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.6, Manchester University Press

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• Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points us to heaven where our King Jesus — the Lamb of God who was crucified in our place and raised gloriously from the dead — now sits interceding for us. Not only so, but it calls us forward to that final day when heaven will be filled with the roaring noise of millions upon millions of forgiven voices hailing him as crucified Savior and risen King.

  Greg Gilbert

  Jesus, Kings, Irritation

  Greg Gilbert, D. A. Carson (2010). “What Is the Gospel?”, p.71, Crossway

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• Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, California

  John Steinbeck (2002). “Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Sleep, Way, Kind

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• 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

  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
  until you arrive at the silence of yourself
  and listen to it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Emotional, Silence, Intellectual

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

  Sam Kutesa

  Country, Drinking, Uganda

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• A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

  Anuj

  Men, Voice, Silence

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• Aping urbanity,
  Oozing with vanity,
  Plump as a manatee,
  Faking humanity,
  Intellectual inanity,
  Journalistic calamity,
  Fox Noise insanity,
  You're a profanity,
  Hannity.

  John Cleese

  Vanity, Insanity, Humanity

  "Ode to Sean Hannity". Poem by John Cleese, www.dailykos.com.

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• God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

  Tim Hansel

  God, Loneliness, Heart

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