#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

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#always #cage #dreaming #eyes #free

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#be careful #careful #command #dispute #doors

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#brings #building #could #done #effects