Fixed Pattern Noise

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, pattern and/or noise:

    “... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.”
    —Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)

    “Swift while the woof is whole,
    turn now my spirit, swift,
    and tear the pattern there,
    the flowers so deftly wrought,
    the border of sea-blue,
    the sea-blue coast of home.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “There must be no cessation
    Of motion, or of the noise of motion,
    The renewal of noise
    And manifold continuation....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)