“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.” PeopleSchoolRememberMemoriesPowerfulStudentsCollegeSmellNoiseShootingFourthRemember WhenJulyFireworksCollege StudentsRichmond Author:Kevin Powers
“I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealFacesChurchViewsIssuesModernDrivingNoiseAwfulConventionalRevivalPersecutedMulticulturalOld TimeMulticultural Society Author:Trevor Phillips
“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.” PeopleAgeEarthHumanityDarkWhiteLevelsBuddhismNoiseDark AgesWhite Noise Author:Frederick Lenz
“I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?” PeopleThinkingWritingSometimesKidsWhiteRoomsDegreesWindowMachinesSilentCornersNoiseBagsTrashWhite Noise Author:Jennifer Weiner