Quiet Quotes

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what’s a pretty chaotic life!

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.

I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

Iggy: "Now what? Who you gonna call?" A quiet voice in the hallway outside: "Ghostbusters!" (Captain Perry and John groan) John: "That phrase is ruined forever.

The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.

I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

I try to keep that quiet unless it is asked but yeah, I have a girlfriend and she is a great girl

I'm really good at being sarcastic with guys. That's the best way to hang out with them, because that's what guys . They don't want the quiet, prissy little things.

Love is all the small moments. It is what fills the quiet.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.