Auditory Disturbance Quotes

My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.

The noise is greater then the nuts.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

Noise: a stench in the ear.

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.