Quotes About Background Noise

#1. You should know," he says. His whisper is low enough that even angels probably couldn't hear it beyond the background noise of conversations in the corridor. "I don't even like you.

Susan Ee

#2. Surfing? he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before - just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.

Rick Riordan

#3. Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

Michael Eisner

#4. Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Russell Baker

#5. Perhaps the greatest lesson was also the simplest: Cherish and take care of what you value. Happiness is fragile. Appreciate every moment and do everything you can to protect it. The rest of life, in a sense, is background noise.

Harlan Coben

#6. It's an amazing experience when you focus on the positive things in your life. Things start to change. You become happier. You see things differently. There might still be negative things there, but like an airplane flying overhead, they become the background noise of your mind.

Tom Giaquinto

#7. However, continuous background noise--even if it is no longer consciously heard--has a wide range of negative effects on people, from stress, tiredness, and increased irritability to reduced accuracy in task performance.

Mike Goldsmith

#8. No disaster can stay shiny and new forever. No worry has ever been invented that the mind cannot bully down into mere background noise.

Jamie Mason

#9. Do you, and the rest is background noise.

Grace Gealey

#10. The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century,

Douglas Adams

#11. Mozart," Julie says in a bitter chuckle, staring at the speaker. "It's supposed to be the pinnacle of art, right? This transcendent human achievement? And we use it for background noise in bathrooms. We literally shit on it.

Isaac Marion

#12. When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

Ben Carson

#13. Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

George Mason

#14. Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

Barry Ritholtz

#15. But maybe those things are like background noise if you're from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.

Susane Colasanti

#16. why count the buses? probably because they're recognizable and regular:they cut up time, they punctuate the background noise; ultimately, they're foreseeable

Georges Perec

#17. The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.

Gary Chapman

#18. Your half empty..

A broken glass,

I love you can sound so beautiful

Until you stop to listen

That terrible background noise,

you have no idea how bad I want to hold you

But I'm afraid I'll cut my hand.

Brittany Williams

#19. A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Italo Calvino

#20. I do like to just have football on, so I will TiVo, like, three or four games for the weekend, and I'll just turn it on when there's no live football on, just to have the background noise.

Christopher Gorham

#21. In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.

Temple Grandin

#22. In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

Carl Honore

#23. In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

Rick Yancey

#24. There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.

Missy Lyons

#25. I hear the carnations talking over the drone of white noise in the background. They're saying how painful it is to be snipped at the stems, complaining about the quality of the water they're swimming in, asking to be put back into the ground so they can die in peace.

A.G. Howard

#26. Now, Justinia, you are unfair.

Anthony Trollope

#27. This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical.

Roald Dahl

#28. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

Arthur Bloch

#29. I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#30. Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

John Lennon

#31. I sit on the bed and think how life is never safe and they should tell you that right off the bat. Things happen out of order and just plain wrong, and there is not one thing you can do about it. The message of every morning is? ??????????

Elizabeth Berg

#32. We made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

Conor Oberst

#33. Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

Bill McKibben

#34. One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#35. You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

Lupe Fiasco

#36. Why do certain people try to go against the natural order of things, which is to fight for survival whatever happens?

Paulo Coelho

#37. I always say people can call me anything they want as long as they don't call me late for supper.

Robert De Niro

#38. I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#39. The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

Napoleon Hill

#40. I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

Jess Row

#41. The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.
It was difficult to come back.

Ian McEwan

#42. Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

Timothy Keller