Noise Disturbance Quotes

I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.

In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

The noise is greater then the nuts.

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.'

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera!

Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!

Apparently my street has a leaf blower gang who tag team all day, so the sounds of the leaf blower are forever blowing from dawn to dusk.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.

I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.