Noise Quotes - Page 27

• We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Care, Affection, Rave

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.574

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• Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Distance, Light

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.83

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• The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

  Blaise Pascal

  Independent, Men, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.109

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• 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

  Time, Animal, Listening

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• It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Grief, Silence, World

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.43, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• [Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Warfare, Instinct

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.780, e-artnow

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• Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

  Marie Corelli

  Animal, Giving, Special

  Marie Corelli (2016). “Innocent”, p.391, Marie Corelli

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• He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

  Mike Ditka

  Jealous, Winning, Eagles

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• We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

  Russell Wilson

  Player, Cities, Kansas City

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• So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.

  Shawn Achor

  Struggle, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

  Eleanor Clark

  Girl, Eye, Expression

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• noise is a pollution.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Pollution

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• 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

  Home, World, Tiny

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• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Morning, Distance, Sleep

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service; it isn't very messy and rarely makes a noise. A book can be read over and over, then passed on to friends, or resold at a garage sale. A book will not crash or freeze and will still work when filled with sand. Even if it falls into the bath, it can be dried out and finished. Books require no special training to operate.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Fall, Training

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• A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Nurse, Smoking, Poison

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• Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.

  Leon Brown

  Voice, People, Soul

  "Rihanna shares Chris Brown's frustrations with words from Tupac". www.mtv.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

  Blake Lewis

  Silence, Golden, Silence Is Golden

  "What Are You Doing This Weekend?: Bshorty Farewell Party with KJ Sawka + Ra Scion + Joe Doria" by Aja Pecknold, Seattle Weekly, June 04, 2007.

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• Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

  Jane Kenyon

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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• Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

  Vincent Price

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  People, Sound, Demand

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

  George Mason

  Background Noise, Waiting, Make You Happy

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• No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Death, Stars, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

  Sophie Scholl

  People, Torches, Doe

  As quoted in "O2 : Breathing New Life Into Faith" by Richard Dahlstrom, Ch. 4 : Artisans of Hope: Stepping into God's Kingdom Story, (p. 63), 2008.

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• Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Nate Silver

  Self, Differences, Serenity

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin

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