Music and silence – how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell – though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express – no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, […]
Noise Quotes
If you love not the noise of the bells, why pull the ropes?
I like the noise of democracy.
The impulse to create beauty is rather rare in literary men. Far ahead of it comes the yearning to make money, and after the yearning to make money comes the yearning to make a noise.
The stars make no noise.
I have never found a sound to be nerve-racking, not even a burglar alarm.
You know what’s the loudest noise in the world? The loudest noise in the world is silence.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Our own age is not likely to be distinguished in history for the large numbers of people who insisted on finding the time to think. Plainly, this is not the Age of Meditative Man… Substitutes for repose are a billion dollar business. Almost daily, new antidotes for contemplation spring into being and leap out from […]
