Noisy Quotes

• Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

  James Thurber

  Fear, Men, Desperation

  James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”

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• However, we need to participate and manage skillfully, helpfully, and harmoniously, for a better world, family and society to be possible. So everybody's spiritual by nature I believe, not that they necessarily have to be religious. Everybody wants, or cares about, and has values even if they don't talk about them all the time explicitly, like some noisy preachers do with their foghorn voices and dogmatic views.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Silence, Joy, Reason

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• Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

  Max Ehrmann

  Peace, Silence, Haste

  Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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• In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Opportunity, Land

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It`s not a silent majority, it`s really a noisy majority.

  Donald Trump

  Majority, Movement, Remember

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Color, Rainbow

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• On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Crowds, April

  "Memoirs". Book by Edward Gibbon, Vol. i. p. 116, 1796.

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• The silence of the envious is too noisy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Silence, Envious

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

  Aristotle

  Trying, Doing Nothing, Way

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• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  M. H. Abrams

  Military, Communication, Voice

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• Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Noble, Actors, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1724, Delphi Classics

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• The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Vacancy, Youth

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  Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Mind, World

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.554

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• Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Noise, Sanity, Imposition

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Animal, Men, Air

  Stray Birds 43

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• And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Queens, Talking

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Ideas, Profound

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• That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that he’s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.

  Walter Mosley

  Memories, Thinking, Doors

  "Mosley's 'Last Days' Restores Memory, But At A Cost". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 6, 2010.

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• The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Thinking, Air

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• Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.

  Dan Abnett

  Stars, Lying, Past

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• It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

  Bill Bryson

  Wonderful, Moron, Wonderful Times

  Bill Bryson (2006). “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid”

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• Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.

  Marsha Norman

  Block, Years, Bored

  "'night, Mother". www.imdb.com. September 5, 1986.

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