Noise Quotes

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
James Hetfield

Study, Wanted, Theory

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
John Podhoretz

Through, Themselves, Media

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Thomas Beecham

Love, Music, May

Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.
Diablo Cody

Live, Around, Situation

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Health, Country, Soon

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
Eric Clapton

Good, Guitar, Difficult

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Red Adair

Best, Smile, Hurt

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho

Love, Hate, Big

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
Trent Reznor

Musical, Strangely

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
William Dean Howells

Silence, Continual, Sleeps

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf

Good, Manners, Eating

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Russell Baker

Life, Talk, American

I rant and rave about noise pollution.
Robert Carlyle

Pollution, Rant, Rave

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.
Jarvis Cocker

Music, Brain, Free

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

Knowledge, Both, Scientific

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
Nate Silver

Learning, Real, Used

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
Lester Bangs

Rock, Everyone, Against

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly

Fear, Hate, Before

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
Ernest Shackleton

Imagine, Standing, Heavy

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

Movies, Made, Ambition

I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
James Dyson

Child, Dog, Frustrated

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.
Rowan Atkinson

Home, Eyes, Quite

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
Tony Kushner

Sound, Computer, Feels

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
Jane Smiley

Family, Future, Children

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
Gary Numan

Dark, Sometimes, Might

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.
Jarvis Cocker

Time, Bit, Ahead

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will

Nation, Language, Normal

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
Joe E. Lewis

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

Work, Political, Democracy

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
Ethel Waters

After, Working, Young

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