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  • 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  
  • There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

    Believe   White   People  
  • When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

    Song   White   Machines  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

    Fire   House   Alarms  
    Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
  • I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

    Thinking   Self   White  
    "Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.
  • Isn't death the boundary we need?

    Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.186, Penguin
  • Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

    Prayer   Rain   Sky  
    Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.55, Vintage
  • What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.

    Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com
  • The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

    Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.181, Pan Macmillan
  • Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

    Giving Up   Book   White  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House
  • That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.

    Buddhism   Dark   White  
  • Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

    White   People   Work Out  
  • 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.

    White   People   Want  
    Source: screenrant.com
  • A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.

    White   Would Be   Noise  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

    Powerful   Sleep   White  
    Hunter S. Thompson “Hunter S. Thompson's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas”, IDW Publishing
  • I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else

    Father   Two   White  
  • I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy.

    Ideas   White   People  
    Source: www.wanliss.com
  • I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?

    Writing   Kids   Thinking  
  • There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

    Wind   White   Goes On  
  • I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.

    Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.
  • She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

    Moving   White   Feet  
    William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin
  • Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

    Loss   White   Appreciate  
  • Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

    Giving   Borders   Finals  
    Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.186, Penguin
  • Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.

  • Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

    Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
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