Quotes About Outside Noise

#1. This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Sometimes, it's important to turn off the noise from the outside world. Sometimes, it's critical to stop the banter even within oneself. Intentional solitude and quiet can make us strong for tomorrow.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#3. I thought you were disgusted by the people that come to my club." "They're still people." He presses the button again. "If you go outside, you will be killed. If you make noise, you will be sent outside. Don't piss me off." Just like that, Chester's goes completely silent.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

Julia Kent

#5. As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

Sanjay Kumar

#6. When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing - even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!

Eric Samuel Timm

#7. There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

Washington Irving

#8. If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Joy Harjo

#9. 2PE3.10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that

Anonymous

#10. It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

Colum McCann

#11. You grown-ups are making too much noise! Go play Outside for awhile. February

Jack Lewis

#12. Hunting Verse - Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all

Rudyard Kipling

#13. Here is the faithful night, the cool night which I called for amid the noise of lights, drink and the tumult of desire.

Albert Camus

#14. This is Sumarbrander, the Sword of Summer... and it is about to kick your collective butts."
"Thank you," said the sword.
Sam made a squeaking noise.

Rick Riordan

#15. recovery will be tied to routine; risk of relapse tied to noise. God is hard enough to find in the quietness.

Seth Haines

#16. Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

Lisa Wingate

#17. Love is Noise.
Love is silence.
In love you're human.
In love you possess magical powers.
In love you shelter yourself.
In love, you expose yourself.

Nicholas Mosley

#18. There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.

John Vanderslice

#19. Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction ... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

David L. Ulin

#20. Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.

Jane Goodall

#21. During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#22. Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be.

Susan Cooper

#23. 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 Bastami

#24. Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.

Brennan Manning

#25. She twisted her body to the curtained windows, listening to the night. "Where are you, poor dead thing? Are you right outside?" The voice of the sea drifted on a low wind, like the noise a wolf might make in its sleep.

Robert Dunbar

#26. I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

Chris Pronger

#27. The dark edge of the moor and the Cow and Calf rock are crisp against the blue-black sky. I can't see anyone outside, watching us. As I shut the door behind me, I hear a noise. It came from the hall. I feel the hairs rise on the back of my neck.

Sanjida Kay

#28. There's something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you're inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it's just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.

Kate Morton

#29. Not even by colourfully painting my window can I block out the noise of the life outside, which doesn't know I'm observing it.

Anonymous

#30. That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath.

Virginia Woolf

#31. Listen to that little voice inside you. Sometimes it can whisper meaningful words of wisdom and make more sense than the deafening noise of opinions and judgements outside.

Roopleen

#32. For the first time he became aware of the profound silence of the place, insulated by stone and metal from the noise of the street outside. It gave the mosque a sympathetic air, as if it could speak but chose instead to listen.

G. Willow Wilson

#33. I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

Kate Beckinsale

#34. The noise of the trees, the breaking of moon into silver fish bouncing off the leaves of asters outside.

Michael Ondaatje

#35. Outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected. The best people had made the best systems and the best systems had reaped funds, unlimited funds,

Dave Eggers

#36. The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.

Padma Venkatraman

#37. I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.

Keren Ann

#38. I heard of a tradition," said Thorne, "where the guests are supposed to make a bunch of raucous noise outside of the bridal chambers on the wedding night, until you give us candy and send us away."
Scarlet glared at him. "Yeah, please don't do that.

Marissa Meyer

#39. If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.

Eric Samuel Timm

#40. He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage,

P.G. Wodehouse

#41. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!

Gabriel Iqbal

#42. The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night ...

William Shakespeare

#43. Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise

Derrick May

#44. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

Jonathan Swift

#45. Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen is that you actually aren't disseminating the information that you want to get across to these people.

Drew Barrymore

#46. Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

Myron Uhlberg

#47. When two great minds work in unison, a great deal is accomplished, but there is usually a lot of noise.

Lloyd A. Green

#48. As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave ... walking the plank ... willingly ... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

Morrissey

#49. Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.

Leon Brown

#50. When catastrophe strikes, we look for a signal in the noise - anything that might explain the chaos that we see all around us and bring order to the world again.

Nate Silver

#51. Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

Jon Lajoie

#52. When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

Mos Def

#53. No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?

Terry Pratchett

#54. Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

John Lahr

#55. I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

Dylan McDermott

#56. 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

#57. When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

Mark Nepo

#58. There was a click. There was a noise like a partridge. There was a thud.
There was silence.

Terry Pratchett

#59. Those that govern most make least noise.

John Selden

#60. The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

Elisabeth Elliot

#61. The noise of horns and radios and shouted insults was part of the soundtrack of the capital (Hard-boiled P.I. Casta, on Rome, Italy)

Tobias Jones

#62. When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.

Nanamoli Thera

#63. We take our last look at the killing noise.

Jimi Hendrix

#64. The number of times he'd had to pinch his nose to keep his soul in so that he'd make no noise while peering through the parlor keyhole...

Emma Trevayne

#65. All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

Roger Daltrey

#66. It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.

Geraldine Chaplin

#67. There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her.

Kate Williams

#68. But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words were drowned out by the noise of our beating hearts, screaming at us that we were, after all, creatures of flesh and blood.

Dexter Palmer

#69. The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Chuck Jones

#70. When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket.

Nina Dobrev

#71. In a world that is incredibly loud it is easy to lose yourself in the noise and forget who you truly are.

Bella Sparelli

#72. If you call that music real noise

Joseph McElroy

#73. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.

Sarah McLachlan

#74. But a quick-acting poison, that's different. It strikes with blind swiftness. You can be bit by temptation anytime. It is a thought, a direction, a noise in your brain, a hunch, an intuition that leads you to darker places than you've ever imagined. I

Louise Erdrich

#75. They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...

Ruth Rendell

#76. When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm.

Karen Marie Moning