oise Quotes and Quotations
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oise Quotes and Quotations
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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. Jean Arp | top
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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. Mary Austin | top
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. Anita Brookner | top
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I like the noise of democracy. James Buchanan | top
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. T-Bone Burnett | top
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. Alexander Chase | top
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. Barry Cornwall | top
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film. Jackie DeShannon | top
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Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved. Anne Dudley | top
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Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it. Lou Harrison | top
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My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem. Rex Hunt | top
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There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson | top
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The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. Robert B. Laughlin | top
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It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. Charles Godfrey Leland | top
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The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. Steven Levy | top
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You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes. Bobby Locke | top
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. John Major | top
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It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts. Robert Mueller | top
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I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution. George Murray | top
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz | top
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They that govern the most make the least noise. John Selden | top
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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her. Carly Simon | top
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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. George Steiner | top
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To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. Clyde Tombaugh | top
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. George Will | top
