| "When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous." »Simone Weil |
| "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 |
| "It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right." »Unknown |
| "Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure." »Lou Vickery |
| "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." »Peter Ustinov |
| "We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation." »Edmund Burke |
| "Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth." »Quincy Jones |
| "Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail." »William Lloyd |
| "Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate." »Margaret Cho |
| "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "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 |
| "Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances." »William Powell |
| "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 |
| "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." »Quentin Crisp |
| "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "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 |
| "I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires." »William Shakespeare |
| "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." »Max L. Forman |
| "If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are." »Joseph Farrell |
| "When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats." »Claude Swanson |
| "Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." »Ross MacDonald |
| "It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out." »Alexander Pope |
| "I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings." »Mary Wortley Montagu |
| "noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought." »Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen |
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