Noise Quotes - Page 33

• Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

  Rumi

  Delight, Streets, Feels

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 1: "The Tavern", p. 2, 1995.

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• One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room...
  Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not.
  The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

  Seth Godin

  Struggle, Differences, Making A Difference

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• If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Sweet, Rain, Moon

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• Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.

  William Feather

  Motivational, Blow, People

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• Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who dwell in monasteries, mountains and caves can achieve salvation. Solely because of their faith in Him God bestows great blessings on them. Hence those who because of their laziness have failed to attain salvation will have no excuse to offer on the day of judgment. For He who promised to grant us salvation simply on account of our faith in Him is not a liar.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Liars, Blessing

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• What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Sweet, Confused

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• After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

  Terry Pratchett

  Music, Two, Voice

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• There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often hidden. I know some who concern themselves with feeding the poor or who give up their free time to work in a parish. As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise ... a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Giving Up, Fall

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• If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Waiting, Layers, Ifs

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.133, Macmillan

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• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Silence, Listening, Way

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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• The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise we have been conditioned to think is true; while discovering, amplifying, and aligning with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness. It is up to you.

  Peter Joseph

  Real, Thinking, Oneness

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.

  Burk Uzzle

  Hair, Perfection, Fleeting

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• Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

  Jane Austen

  Sound, Matter, Taste

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.211, Infobase Publishing

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• As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Tree, Sound

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• I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin.

  Jon Foreman

  Pain, Thinking, Guitar

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• A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

  Kate Elliott

  Men, Thinking, Riding

  Kate Elliott (2009). “Traitors' Gate”, p.182, Macmillan

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• I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become
  strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

  Henry Rollins

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Brother, Giving Up, Animal

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• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sleep, Cities, Elephants

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• The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

  Philip Glass

  Voice, Listening, Too Much

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• I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.

  Katie Hopkins

  Jealous, Sisterhood, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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