Quiet Quotes

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

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

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

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.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.