Quotes of Noise - somelinesforyou

“ Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain. ”

- H. L. Phillips

“ True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ”

- Edward F. Halifax

“ Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it. ”

- Lou Harrison

“ I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people. ”

- Barbara Walters

“ It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. ”

- Luigi Russolo

“ Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. ”

- Peter Ustinov

“ Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ”

- Ronald Knox

“ All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. ”

- Bayazid Al Bistami

“ Calumny is only the noise of madmen. ”

- Diogenes of Sinope

“ Change is not reform, any more than noise is music. ”

- Unknown

“ He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. ”

- William Dean Howells

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

- Joe E. Lewis

“ In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. ”

- Len Deighton

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

- Carl Jung

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

- Thomas Beecham

“ They that govern the most make the least noise. ”

- John Selden

“ A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ”

- Ronald Knox

“ My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. ”

- Steven Wright

“ God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise. ”

- Charles Wesley

“ While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn door Stoutly struts his dames before. ”

- John Milton

“ War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. ”

- Smedley Butler

“ War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ”

- Smedley Butler

“ Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise. ”

- Unknown

“ Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. ”

- Richard J. Foster
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