Noise Quotes

One of great threats facing marine mammals in the ocean is acoustic pollution - noise pollution - which is impeding the whales' ability to find food and communicate with each other.

Empty barrels make the most noise.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

It was a little weird (Wednesday) because we're usually the ones that get the crowd noise. But we welcome the change. That means we're playing at home.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I like the noise of democracy.

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

The patent case was a whole bunch of noise. Right now, R.I.M. is in danger of relegating itself to becoming a niche e-mail player.

It's such a strange noise at first.

We'd tie cans to our (cars) and drag them through the street and there would be fireworks. You make noise for a long and happy life.

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

It's a thankless job. [The Planning Commission] has to juggle economic benefits versus environmental issues such as traffic and noise.

'I can't complain about traffic,' Turner said. 'I put triple windows on my house. The noise doesn't bother me anymore.'.

I think there is a lot of noise currently, but we optimistically believe that he (Button) will be fine, ... When he is in the car, he will have too much to do.

Anything we can get is a help to get people out of the noise area.

Traffic, access, noise, residential protests are problems with outdoor amphitheatres, especially those like White River that are built in rural areas. The traffic issues have to be resolved because ultimately, it's the customer experience that determines whether White River is successful in the long term.

The recording obtained from the accident CVR was completely blank, with no conversations or aircraft noise heard on any of the four channels.

I'm on the sidelines going through my normal routine, stretching, staying loose. I didn't notice the noise or the excitement. My focus was like tunnel vision.

The safe that night looked like a soft one [and] the explosion made no more noise than a pig's grunt.

There was a loud noise - I thought it was a plow coming through - then a flash of light, and then the big stuff started coming down.

A young person may be exposed to a loud noise and cause permanent damage, but a younger ear will compensate and so the effect of that damage is not noticed. As you get older, you lose hearing and the damage becomes more apparent.

When dispatchers received the call, it was basically an open line... making enough noise that the dispatcher could tell that there was a child on the other end.

The stars make no noise.

I was standing there and all of a sudden I heard a loud noise I knew lightning had struck close and I turned around and saw sparks fly from the pole behind me.