"The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise."
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"Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise."
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"I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there."
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"I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid."
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"Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored."
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"And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters"
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"There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves."
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"For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much."
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"I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door."
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"A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves."
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"Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing."
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"Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise."
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"Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year."
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"Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music."
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"They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often."
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"Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war."
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"The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin."
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"Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence."
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"Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail."
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"Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight."
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