The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.
The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn't need a new toy.
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.
There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.
For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here for the same reason that families have always come here-for the hope that in America, they could build a better life for themselves and their families. Like the waves of immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will only enrich our country.
Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.
Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted. " They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.