N Quotes
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“Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.”
Source: Journey Into Summer: A Naturalist’s Record of a 19,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Summer
“Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.”
Source: The World of Silence
“Noise is not only what we hear — it is also our racing thoughts, our restless worries, the endless scroll of things that do not matter. Silence is not only the absence of sound — it is the space where the self finally breathes.”
Source: In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not hear the people's voice for generations Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
Source: V for Vendetta
“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
Source: V for Vendetta
“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Noise is the primary hurdle we must overcome. We're always one click away from being ignored.”
Source: Clarity Wins: Get Heard. Get Referred.
“Noise is the thing that keeps us from hearing what the silence exists to tell us.”
“Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.”
“Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.”
“Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.”
Source: 2500 jokes to start 'em laughing
“Noise pollution is basically defined as the presence of simple information that makes it impossible to hear all the other more delicate - and often more important - information. Noise pollution creates, if you will, dumb environments. Our industrial areas, many of our downtown urban areas, are dumb acoustic environments. Very simple, very loud, often unhealthy.”
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
Source: 10 Books in 1
“Noise: The blessing of so many voices is we can find someone singing our song and join in. As far as personal circles go, our decisions have a larger impact than we can imagine.”
“Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.”
“Noise will always sound the death of silence.”
“NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Noise: a stench in the ear.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.”
“Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.”
“Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.”
“Noises that can reduce the difference between the background ambient hum and sudden loud sounds include:
~ White noise- this is a continuous mechanical-type noise, like the gentle hum of a motor, that covers the whole hearing range of frequencies...
~ Pink noise- this noise boosts lower frequencies for those who find white noise too sharp, and is more akin to natural noises such as steady rainfall or wind rustling through the leaves in a tree...
~ Brown noise- this is even lower frequency noise, like thunder or a crashing waterfall.”
Source: Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing
“Noite, vão para ti meus pensamentos,
Quando olho e vejo, à luz cruel do dia,
Tanto estéril lutar, tanta agonia,
E inúteis tantos ásperos tormentos…
Tu, ao menos, abafas os lamentos,
Que se exalam da trágica enxovia…
O eterno Mal, que ruge e desvaria,
Em ti descansa e esquece alguns momentos…
Oh! Antes tu também adormecesses
Por uma vez, e eterna, inalterável,
Caindo sobre o Mundo, te esquecesses,
E ele, o Mundo, sem mais lutar nem ver,
Dormisse no teu seio inviolável,
Noite sem termo, noite do Não-ser.”
Source: Sonetos Completos
“Nokia and our team worked day and night; sites were selected, even churches, masts were built, and equipment was installed. We were heading for launch. Dead tired but things moved forward. Richard’s wife was screaming and shouting on the phone, where the f… he was, she would divorce him. It was early evening after our Christmas party, the offices deserted. Very cold outside, big snowflakes falling. Richard and I were looking out of the big 6th floor windows of our new office in Pest. Silently we stood together. We had grown close that year. He said sadly, ‘You see those people there Ineke? They have a life and we will improve it when they get cheap mobile phones. And we?’ I said nothing, I just watched people pass by and felt like him; lone wolves we had become.”
Source: Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?
“Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.”
“Nokia was number one for 14 years and still has the chance to be so again.”
“Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”
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“Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.”
“Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.”
“Nolan said, “Higher Love is ultra violent, highly secretive and need to silence me before I expose its leaders and plans. Higher Love’s goal is the overthrow of the US government and its replacement by a military dictatorship. It’s not as unlikely as it sounds given how badly the political system functions these days. Uncovering this organization on behalf of the president is what I’ve done night and day the last two years.”
“Hire Dan Brown to write the screenplay,” Mei Ling said. “Maybe you can cast Tom Hanks to play you. You’d like that.”
“Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.”
Source: Faking Perfect
“Nole used to say turning to God wasn't weakness. That being weak is where the true strength came from.”
Source: The Nightmare Virus
“Noli me tangere,
noli me legere,
noli me videre,
noli me”
“Noli me tangere, touch me not, do not try to touch me, says Jesus to Mary Magdalene, it is the third day of his death, don't touch me for I am no longer and I am not yet, I am no longer living, I have not yet 'ascended to my father', I am dead, still dead, don't go and touch death: this is impossible. I have been stricken with intangibility. Yet there he is. Only with her hands does she not touch him. With her eyes she touches and he is touched. What if she couldn't see him? She would touch him with her ears, with her voice, with silence. There are so many ways of touching without touching, without touching be touched, to be in the continuity of the real.”
Source: Poetry in Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics
“Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am /
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”
“Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.”
“Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.”
“Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.”
“Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!”
“NoMarch felt the forces of fate closing about him and pushing him to a decision. He feebly fought them off till he could have another look at the flat. Then, baked and subdued still more by the unexpected presence of Mrs. Grosvenor Green herself, who was occupying it so as to be able to show it effectively, he took it. He was aware more than ever of its absurdities; he knew that his wife would never cease to hate it; but he had suffered one of those eclipses of the imagination to which men of his temperament are subject, and into which he could see no future for his desires. He felt a comfort in irretrievably committing himself, and exchanging the burden of indecision for the burden of responsibility.”
Source: A Hazard of New Fortunes
“NOMBRES
En la desolación de mi sangre,
bajo la angustia que me enceguece
yo busco nombres para mi amor:
mi amor casi odio,
apenas sol.”
“Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.”
“Nombres, nombres, ese es el problema, los nombres, las etiquetas, pero en las cosas del espíritu no hay cédulas de identidad. Los límites y separaciones van desapareciendo. Son los hombres quienes compiten, dividen, parcelan, encasillan, ponen límites y fronteras y se embarcan en guerras religiosas; pero cuando hay amor en el corazón se comprende que todo el Universo y todos los seres son una gran unidad…”
Source: Ami, el niño de las estrellas
“Nombres ¿que es un nombre en realidad? Me refiero, además de un montón de sonidos y letras que se juntan para formar una palabra. ¿una rosa con cualquier otro nombre olería igual de dulce, verdad? ¿seria la historia de amor mas famosa del mundo tan conmovedora si se llamará Romeo y Gertrudis?¿porque es tan importante como nos llamamos?”
“Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.”
“Nomi flinched. "You caught his attention. You are a Grace. Congratulations."
Nomi's tears spilled, burning her cheeks. "I didn't want this. This wasn't a prize, Serina. We should have a choice!"
"This was my choice," Serina blazed.
"No." Nomi's heart wrenched. "It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed!”
Source: Grace and Fury
“Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.”
“Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.”