Quiet Quotes · Page 39

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible...

— Chris Hedges

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of…

— John Lydon

“...a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner...”

— Nikolai Gogol

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

— Walter Bagehot

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

— Rodney Dangerfield

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

— Anonymous

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in…

— Carrie Brownstein

When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.

— Justine Skye

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you…

— Joseph Murphy

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…

— Dana Hill

Like a crowd in my head, so loud. I wonder what it's like to be dead, I hope it's quiet. Noise in…

— Maxwell Frazer

“I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...”

— George Prochnik

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone…

— Clifford Odets

“Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard...”

— Simon Boylan

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who…

— Lisa Yuskavage

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another…

— Boy George

You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept…

— Whitney M. Young

I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind.…

— Anonymous

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very…

— Marcus Aurelius

For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine,…

— Arne Garborg

I was struggling a bit and I was almost like going to give up on acting, you know? And I just wasn't…

— Dylan Llewellyn

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial…

— Edgar Mitchell

If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

— Tisha Venturini

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have…

— Kevin Harvick

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

— Bonnie Langford

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

— Amelia Barr

“I have learnt to stay quiet even in those times when I feel like screaming.”

— Garima Soni - words world

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice...

— Tite Kubo

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

— John Waters

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

— Jeanette Winterson

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

— Salman Rushdie

Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.

— Anonymous

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

— Anonymous

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

— Khaled Hosseini

When we got married, we kind of kept it quiet because everybody was saying, 'Oh, Mickey and Minnie got married.'

— Russi Taylor

“Once it's all done, I fancy I'll come back as an owl. Free and alone in the quiet of the night.”

— David Kirk

Getting out of the noise of the city is massively important for someone like me - an introverted, quiet person.

— Gracie Abrams