Top 1200 White Noise Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

I love to sit down and have my drink in the afternoon. It's so lovely if there's no noise, no calamities, no children that have to be attended to.

My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.

Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.

The entire world is skewed from the white male perspective. If you're a woman, they have to say it's a female-driven comedy. If it's a comedy with Latinos in it, it's a Latino comedy. 'Normal' is white male, and I find that to be shocking and ridiculous.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.

So with the stretch of the white road before me, Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun, Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows, Strong with the strength of my horse as we run. Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight! Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

We're going to see more, and we are seeing more, and I'll tell you exactly why. Not because white and black are more likely to get together. Only a third of the seven percent of congregations that are interracial are black and white.

I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.

One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he for real? Or is he just kissing ass? Almost all Negroes, are almost always acting, but before a white audience - which is quite incapable of judging their performance.

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Being 'out and proud' can feel like a real luxury of Western culture, where people are often white and see existing white gay people in their culture. That's a kind of privilege people don't know they possess.

Mitt Romney got 59 percent of the white vote in 2012, considered by many to be a high-water mark with this demographic group. Can [Donald] Trump win a higher share of white voters than Romney and get more of them to turn out?

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

I'm not a guy who really gets caught up in outside noise or opinions, or anything like that.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

First thing we have to do is recognize the time. We're at the end of the time of the White world to dominate Black people and Original People all over the planet.Can't you see that the God of justice is whipping the hell out of America with the storms, with floods, with hell, with hurricanes, with tornadoes; can't you see that things are happening? The clouds of war are gathering. Donald Trump is the right man in the right place in the White House for White people at the time of the end of their power to rule over us. He's going to bring it on.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.

I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.

I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.