Noise Quotes

I like the noise of democracy.

The impulse to create beauty is rather rare in literary men. Far ahead of it comes the yearning to make money, and after the yearning to make money comes the yearning to make a noise.

The stars make no noise.

I have never found a sound to be nerve-racking, not even a burglar alarm.

You know what’s the loudest noise in the world? The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation… Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously […]

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Noise, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.