| "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 |
| "There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." »Robert Orben |
| "The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH" »Shel Silverstein |
| "We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation." »Edmund Burke |
| "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." »Peter Ustinov |
| "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 |
| "Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate." »Margaret Cho |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise." »Cyril Connolly |
| "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls." »Mother Theresa |
| "A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad" »Alan Marshall Beck |
| "In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will |
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