“Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.” IfsImportantSpaceObjectsBuildingPagesScalesDialogueNoise Author:Massimo Vignelli
“And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.” WayFeelsWritingHealthyPagesBe GoodNoiseAnother WayAnathema Author:Zadie Smith
“There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out.” PeopleSongDifferencesQuietPagesFolksNoisePianoFiltersPorchSalonsFolk SongsPlaying Piano Author:Tim Hecker
“I try to minimize the noise, and I don't use Facebook except for my fan page, and I don't look at anything. It's getting a lot easier.” TryingLooksUseFansEasierPagesNoise Author:Jen Kirkman
“When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.” MenFeelsBookRealDreamLastsNightFallVoiceMemoriesConsciousnessClothesPagesIdealsDemocraticChaosPatternsNoiseEnjoyedSentimentsLast NightSelectiveDrowsyFalling Asleep Book:A Preface to Paradise Lost Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.” MenWellsSeemsTodayFirePlanetsSeriousBattlePagesMen And WomenRainIntelligentDialogueNoiseProseEndeavorIntelligent Man Author:John Cheever