One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible... — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit. — Tisha Venturini Copy Share Image
We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet,… — Ice T Copy Share Image
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The drinker is a Dionysiac, a dancer who sits still, a mocker. He doesn't need your seriousness or your regard. He just… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I was definitely not the cocky kid. I was probably on the other end of the spectrum - I was quiet. I… — Connor McDavid Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the… — Livy Copy Share Image
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of quiet angry that can lie down over a house. Maybe there are some houses, like the Daughertys', that… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice... — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
“I have learnt to stay quiet even in those times when I feel like screaming.” — Garima Soni - words world Copy Share Image
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly. — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time. — John Waters Copy Share Image
“the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark… — sarah ruhl Copy Share Image
When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him. — Crystal Gayle Copy Share Image
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“Well, it was so quiet you could have heard a molecule fart three states away.” — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask questions — that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great. — Jon Heder Copy Share Image
“I mean I don’t want to die but I sure would appreciate the quiet.” — Elisabeth Hewer Copy Share Image
