And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.
There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.
When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!
Shut your noise, you old c***!
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.
God loves the noise as much as the signal.
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.
Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.
We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.