Noise Quotes - Page 40

• Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

  Bennett Cerf

  Art, Teaching, Deep Thought

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• Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise.

  W. C. Fields

  Wine

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• Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Book, White

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

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• Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of pleasure. We should lower the noise level in our homes so that the noise of the world will not overpower the still, small voice of the Holy Ghost. One of our greatest goals as parents should be to enjoy the power and influence of the Holy Ghost in our homes.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Home, Voice, Goal

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• Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

  John Cage

  Music, Peace, Fascinating

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.17, Wesleyan University Press

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• I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.

  Filbert Bayi

  Night, Training, Black

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• Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

  John Milton

  Nature, War, Night

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.159

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• If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Song: When One Door Closes

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• Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Holiday

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• If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Inspiration, Silence

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• Throughout history there have been many men and women who have chosen to imitate Jesus as he withdraws into the desert... To pass time in the desert means to create a little emptiness and silence around us, to rediscover the road to our heart, to remove ourselves from the noise and external distractions, to enter into contact with the deepest source of our being and our faith.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.

  George Woodward Warder

  Heaven, Would Be, Looks

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• To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

  Oliver Herford

  Women, Sound, Feminine

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• If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

  Prince Philip

  Class, Appreciate, Design

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• It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Ocean, Tired, Caring

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.22, Grove Press

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• There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.

  Richard J. Foster

  Eye, Keys, Perfect

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Water, Doe, Quiet

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Singing Wilderness”, p.137, Knopf

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• I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Philosophy, Desire, Goodness

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• Memory revises me.
  Even now a letter
  comes from a place
  I don’t know, from someone
  with my name
  and postmarked years ago,
  while I await
  injunctions from the light
  or the dark;
  I wait for shapeliness
  limned, or dissolution.
  Is paradise due or narrowly missed
  until another thousand years?
  I wait
  in a blue hour
  and faraway noise of hammering,
  and on a page a poem begun, something
  about to be dispersed,
  something about to come into being.

  Li-Young Lee

  Memories, Dark, Light

  Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

  Luigi Russolo

  Art, Musical, Sound

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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• We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

  Luigi Russolo

  Circles, Sound, Break Out

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Mind, Tasks, Firsts

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, World, May

  twitter.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Solitude, Done, World

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.406, Discovery House

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