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• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Men, Woods, Bears

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.23, Rutgers University Press

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Twenties, Essentials

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Consciousness, Whole

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• It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

  Herb Alpert

  Tape, Cleaning, Clean

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• God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

  Charles Wesley

  Gone, Triumphant

  Charles Wesley, John Wesley, Samuel Wesley (1855). “The Wesleyan Psalter: a poetical version of nearly the whole Book of Psalms”, p.120

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• We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

  Freddie Mercury

  Bigs, Flashy, Bits

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• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  Babe Ruth

  Men, Littles

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• I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Alcohol, Bombs, I Can

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• Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Lying, Science, Use

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.82, Institute of GS

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• As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

  Alexander Pope

  People, Bottles, Pouring

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Music, Silence, Listening

  Thomas Raymond Kelly (1987). “The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to A Testament of Devotion”

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• For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

  John Cheever

  Grief, Rain, Writing

  Accepting National Medal for Literature, en.wikiquote.org. April 27, 1982.

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• The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

  Roger Ebert

  Ambition, Made

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Heaven, Next, Hell

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• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  T Bone Burnett

  Always Trying, Ironic, Overcoming

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• In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

  Jim Balsillie

  Buying In, America, Spite

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• My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

  Rex Hunt

  Thinking, Whales, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

  Anne Dudley

  Art, People, Groups

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• When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane

  James Lafferty

  Sleep, Clock Is Ticking, Insane

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• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  Carl Jung

  Music, Reality, Scream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

  Ruth Rendell

  Annoying

  Ruth Rendell (1993). “Inspector Wexford”

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• When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Song, Umpires, Play

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• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  Federico Fellini

  Thinking, Voice, Confusion

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

  Darrell Johnson

  Sports, Psychology, Together

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• Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

  Michael Novak

  Work, Government, Political

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