Noise Quotes

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

So now I lye by Day and toss or rave by Night, since the ratling and perpetual Hum of the Town deny ...

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, bu...

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned ...

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not...

The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:3...

A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a ...

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it ne...

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them m...

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled me...

Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He wo...

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inv...

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" — he mad...

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of wha...

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be ...

At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of di...

No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about qu...

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and ...

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or mo...

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. Where t...

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world ...

O take me from the busy crowd,I cannot bear the noise!For Nature's voice is never loud;I seek for qu...

The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths...