Quiet Quotes

There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

I was pretty quiet as a child.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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 guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.

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

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.

I'm quiet.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.