{"quotes":[{"text":"The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.","author":"Luke Taylor","tags":["air","car","city","coal","curse","diesel","drill-bit","fog","gasoline","grimy","heart","heatbeat","man","noise","petrol","pollution","rules","smog","street","vehicle","window"],"id":1543,"author_id":"Luke+Taylor"},{"text":"The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard.","author":"Bernard Kelvin Clive","tags":["communication","noise","personal-branding","social-media","value","voice"],"id":2616,"author_id":"Bernard+Kelvin+Clive"},{"text":"When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.","author":"Craig Groeschel","tags":["all","attention","demands","drowns","enormously","important","loudly","noise","of","often","our","out","small","something","the","what-s","whisper"],"id":6852,"author_id":"Craig+Groeschel"},{"text":"Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon.","author":"Arthur C. Clarke","tags":["2001","jupiter","noise","radiation","sci-fi","science","science-fiction","sound","space"],"id":7483,"author_id":"Arthur+C.+Clarke"},{"text":"He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. But today, above the noise, he would have to shout it.","author":"Debra Anastasia","tags":["fathers-and-daughters","hospital","hurt","love","noise","quiet"],"id":23109,"author_id":"Debra+Anastasia"},{"text":"The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["anguish","appalling","appealing","atmosphere","atmospheric","calm","calmness","dead","death","goth","gothic","gothic-romance","literal","literally","loud","mysterious","mystery","noise","noiseless","onimous","pain","painful","quiet","romance","romantic","serene","silence","silent","sinister","suspense","tranquil","unbroken","yell","young-adult"],"id":23410,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"Drinking people are loud people. This is loston children, who make monkey bars of noise,climbing through and over its steel pipesuntil they king the metal smell of mountain.","author":"Ken Craft","tags":["alcohol","noise"],"id":24759,"author_id":"Ken+Craft"},{"text":"Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["noise","silence"],"id":42028,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["conversation","humans","noise"],"id":42940,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["beat","heart","heart-beat","life","love","noise","quote","relationship","soft","sound","whisper"],"id":50747,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":114,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}