Quiet Quotes

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Nowhere can anyone find a #‎ quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own #‎ soul . We need to turn some things down and turn some things off. We need to be #‎ quiet .

A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved, quiet and shy myself.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.