256 Quotes About Noise

it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

In my Paris apartment, when a neighbor drives nails into the wall at an undue hour, I "naturalize" the noise by imagining that I am in my house in Dijon, where I have a garden. And finding everything I hear quite natural, I say to myself: "That's my woodpecker at work in the acacia tree." This is my method for obtaining calm when things disturb me.

Do you hear it? The loud noise from the room at night? Never mind, It's just my mom snoring.

Mine is the apartment that receives all noises, even from the basement below. For one hundred and ten dollars a month, I feel as if I live inside a radio.

I mean, people usually make such a fuss and a bunch of noise when in mortal danger, and some of us are trying to read right now, thank you.

Noise does not respect boundaries. And the less control you have over sounds you do not want--barking dogs, loud music, the interstate--the more it affects you, and not just your mind, but your body.

We often attribute today's short attention spans to electronics, both cell phones and screens, but a powerful underlying contributor to inattention is noise.

It is amazing, how much physical and emotional noise we all generate.

A device in the arm of his chair made an obscene noise. The murals on the chair suggested disturbing things being done to some briefly unlucky beings.