Quiet Quotes · Page 36

We are a plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.

— JRR Tolkien

“Nothing is every quiet, except for fools.”

— Alan Paton

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

— Rufus Jones

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

— Jesse McCartney

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

— Sune Rose Wagner

When a girl is quiet and does not talk, that is when she needs you the most.

— Anonymous

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Just because I'm quiet doesn't mean that I forgave you ... it just means that I'm still planning how I'm going to…

— Hussein Nishah

“I never knew until then that snow made everything quiet, somehow silencing all the world's noise.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

— James Vincent McMorrow

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be…

— Bell Hooks

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must…

— Lord Byron

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort…

— Deepak Chopra

Cold Chisel had their moments, but basically, they were all decent, quiet chaps. I was just a lunatic. Those guys didn't know…

— Jimmy Barnes

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…

— Yann Martel

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a…

— Helen Hunt

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become…

— Joseph Addison

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it…

— Diane Ackerman

So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells…

— Tadashi Shoji

Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering…

— Alain de Botton

The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a…

— Erin Morgenstern

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he…

— John Boyne

“Look, we need to make time, but we also need to be somewhat quiet." She faced him. "I am being quiet!" Pathik…

— Teri Hall

I was constantly surprised by how things took shape, whether it was something that was funny or [sharp] or some of these…

— Paul Dano

We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The…

— David Eddings

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much…

— Hilaire Belloc

I always say, 'When things are quiet, you know something is going on.'

— Shawn Kemp

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

— Olivia Newton-John

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

— James Joyce

“If you think the country is quiet, you’ve never lived in it. Tree frogs alone make you wish for earplugs.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

— Anonymous

“Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born. ~Run the Voodoo Down~”

— Cassandra Wilson

Most of the times in life, it's better to just keep quiet and lay down.

— Anonymous

“You shouldn't talk about things you don't understand. Which should leave you pretty damn quiet.”

— Rachel Vincent

“It’s quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people’s dreams.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Bob Thaves

Listen...you can hear the colors flowering in the quiet of your soul

— Laurel Burch

“She lives in a shadow of a lonely girl Voice so quiet you a hear a word Always talking but she can't…

— Little Mix

I was a shy kid, wasn't necessarily an extrovert, but I couldn't help doing voices.

— Bill Irwin