#noise

Noise soup. I just made it. Taste it with your ears. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #noise #soup #taste #funny

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#noise #noise-pollution #intelligence

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. ↗

— George Steiner

#noise #something #terribly #wrong

The noise was like, well, it was like a thousand vampire cats clawing on Plexiglas—it made their teeth hurt. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#sound #love

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#music #noise #silence #sound #music

One person's data is another person's noise. ↗

— K.C. Cole

#data #music #noise #sound #music

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down! ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#children #coolness #music #noise #parenting

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#noise #nature

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#perspective #rain #silence #white-noise #dog

The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps even something deeper like the need to survive. Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become. The family process works towards sealing off the world. Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate. I tell Murray that ignorance and confusion can’t possibly be the driving forces behind family solidarity. What an idea, what a subversion. He asks me why the strongest family units exist in the least developed societies. Not to know is a weapon of survival, he says. Magic and superstition become entrenched as the powerful orthodoxy of the clan. The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What a heartless theory, I say. But Murray insists it’s true. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#hostile-facts #white-noise #family