Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Will you be quiet?" he asked, smiling down at her. She nodded. He pretended to think about it. "I don't believe you/"… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments. — Bill Kreutzmann Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
If I lived in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle… — Don Iveson Copy Share Image