Quiet Quotes

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

The noonday quiet holds the hill.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Everyone gets real quiet 'cause they're a little uncomfortable.

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

True strength is shown by the person who remains humble, quiet, & positive throughout all adversity and maintains their path towards success.

I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.

If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.

I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

I mean I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.