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"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth." »Quincy Jones
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"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone." »Hodding Carter
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"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary." »Peter Minard
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"For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork." »Neil Gershenfeld
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"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." »Emile Zola
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"What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other." »Elizabeth Adamson
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"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails." »Richard Rybolt
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"People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
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"Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." »Peter Ustinov
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"We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation." »Edmund Burke
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"That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it." »Jerry Coleman
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"Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail." »William Lloyd
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"Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate." »Margaret Cho
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"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." »Napoleon
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"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day." »Sharon Gold
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak." »Michel de Montaigne
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper." »Barry Neil Kaufman
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"The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?" »Mahabharata
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"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances." »William Powell
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"There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what?s loud and senseless talking, huffing, and swearing any other than a more fashionable way of braying?" »L?Estrange
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"From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence." »Visions of Gregorian Chants
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"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
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"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." »Joseph Addison
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