Top 318 Noisy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not.

I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

The world is a very noisy place and so I don't need to shout about things. There are so many people shouting and a lot of people get lost in it.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

I like English football; it's a very important league. I like the crowds in England, too - they are noisy and create a special ambience.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.

The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

In the stadium, when it is very noisy, you only have a limited influence as a coach. You need players on the field who understand the plan and who will talk to the guys when things are not going well.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain.No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated and victimized at three in the morning.

This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us

Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero.

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.