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.

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.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

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.

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

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

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.