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• I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

  Bridget Moynahan

  New York, Cities, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.

  Stevie Smith

  Dog, Boys, Errands

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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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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• 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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• Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Attitude, Essence, Style

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Cities, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.387

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• When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

  Rihanna

  Real, Apology, Feel Good

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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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• 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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• 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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• Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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• We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Silence, Needs, Withdrawal

  "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Important, Buzz, Information

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• The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing.

  Kristin Hannah

  Fall, Heart, Eye

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• Meditate or spend silent time in nature with your partner. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Car, Together

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.94, New World Library

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• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

  Piper Kerman

  Background Noise, Practice, Listening

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

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