“Any action born of noise produces more noise, more confusion.”

“Now there is no more noise, no more confusion, no more talking, no more parliament, or parliamentarism. The Corps Législatif, the Senate, the Council of State, have all had their mouths sewn up.”

“Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.”

“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.”

“Noise accompanies every manifestation of our life. Noise is familiar to us. Noise has the power to bring us back to life. On the other hand, sound, foreign to life, always a musical, outside thing, an occasional element, has come to strike our ears no more than an overly familiar face does our eye. Noise, gushing confusely and irregularly out of life, is never totally revealed to us and it keeps in store innumerable surprises for our benefit. We feel certain that in selecting and coordinating all noises we will enrich men with a voluptuousness they did not suspect.”

“In antiquity, life was nothing but silence. Noise was really not born before the 19th century, with the advent of machinery. Today noise reigns supreme over human sensibility.”

“Avoid the deafening noise of silence: incite thoughts by disfavouring action.”

“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”

“after someone in audience applauds, causing plaintiff to burst into tears: If there's any more noise from our gallery, you're gonna leave. Got it?”

“And then there crept
A little noiseless noise among the leaves,
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.”