#noise

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ↗

— Mark Twain

#egg #hen #laid #merely #noise

I wanted to make noise, not study theory. ↗

— James Hetfield

#make #noise #study #theory #wanted

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

— Mark Twain

#another #another way #awards #more #noise

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#crew #hear #i #lot #machine

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#annoyed #cheering #colored #dreaded #hadn

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ↗

— George Will

#becomes #idiom #language #nation #noise

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. ↗

— Steven Wright

#baby #friend #him #i #i can

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#less #like #makes #merit #noise

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#certain #dentist #drill #ears #going

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#amidst #drawing #early #early age #had