Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus. . . . By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be
There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!
Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.
Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!
Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.
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
Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.
For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.
You just have to work really hard to tune out the noise and the static. Because it gets louder, and people really have an opinion, and you don't want to shy away from taking chances for fear of what people will say, or living in the wreckage of the future [of] what may be if I do this.
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.
our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.
what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.