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  • When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

    Dream   Memories   Real  
    C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.130, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
  • On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

    Rain   Sunday   White  
  • Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.

    Thinking   Air   Hands  
  • While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  • That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot-com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown.

    Air   Eerie   Energy  
  • Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

    Wings   White   Dumb  
  • In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

    Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage
  • We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

    Girl   Jobs   Noise  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan
  • A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

    Hope   Noise   Ruins  
    Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1029, Harvard University Press
  • Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

    "Ode to Sean Hannity". Poem by John Cleese, www.dailykos.com.
  • Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

    Time   Nature   Flower  
  • For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

    Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.57
  • Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

  • After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

    Music   Two   Voice  
  • I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

    Mean   Fishing   Games  
    "Outtakes with Tiger Woods". Interview with Dan Patrick, www.espn.com. May 08, 2002.
  • Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

    Art   Noise   Form  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Dale Earnhardt told me it doesn't matter if fans boo or cheer, as long as they're making noise.

    Cheer   Long   Fans  
  • We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics
  • We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

    "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.
  • We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

    Noise   Window   Should  
    T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.285, Faber & Faber
  • Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

    Art   Thinking   Guitar  
  • There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

    "Phylicia Rashad: A Director's Life". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. June 27, 2012.
  • Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

    Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin
  • St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the senses. Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels.

  • The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.

  • The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

    Sound   Noise   Computer  
    "Kushner's 'Lincoln' Is Strange, But Also Savvy". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. November 15, 2012.
  • I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

    "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.
  • Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.

    Men   Thinking   Noise  
  • My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

    Noise   Made   Downfall  
    "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by A. S. Kline, (Book XXVIII, Ch. 2), 1848 - 1850.
  • Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

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