Quiet Quotes · Page 60

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

— Kiera Cass

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

— Maya Rudolph

“When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.”

— Bryant McGill

Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.

— Josh Lanyon

Sometimes I get quiet all of a sudden. That's when a million and one things are going though my mind.

— Anonymous

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

— Laozi

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

— Nora Roberts

It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but…

— Marilynne Robinson

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living…

— Khalil Gibran

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place…

— Harlan Coben

We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet…

— Anonymous

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.…

— Michael Moore

I'm actually a pretty quiet guy when it comes to fighting. I'm pretty serious. When I go out to fight people I'm…

— Joseph Benavidez

“Betsy closed the door behind them. Neil could just make out the sound of her engine starting, and then it was quiet.…

— Nora Sakavic

I'm quiet. Not because I'm sad, but because there are a million thoughts running through my mind and I just need time…

— Anonymous

“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and…

— Raymond Chandler

Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest…

— Joey Comeau

I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more…

— Adam Morris

I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which,…

— Lord Byron

I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and…

— William Albert Allard

I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright…

— Charles Dickens

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an…

— Laurie Helgoe

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

— Bryan Procter

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in…

— James Ellroy

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

— Rusty Schweickart

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

— Janette Oke

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

— Jack Kerouac

Some guys are quiet, and that works for them. Some guys are loud, and like to talk, and that's fine. Just get…

— Tom Thibodeau

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

— Timothy Zahn

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

— Guillermo del Toro

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

— Laozi

“Maybe it’s not that it’s too quiet now, maybe it was too loud before?”

— David Moody

“A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask.”

— K.J. Parker

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

— Anonymous

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

— Laurence Sterne

Become quiet and allow yourself to yearn for divine stillness which lies beyond this world of illusion and suffering.

— Senoraroy

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

— Wayne Muller

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

— William James