Quiet Quotes

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping Trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

I can't imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Two quiet people are not very fun together.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.