Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
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.
Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.
Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.
Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
Chatterers are a menace.
Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!
Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.
I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.
I feel that too much singing annoys people.
I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
