If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while… — Freddie Prinze, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day.… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and… — Robbie Merrill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it,"… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,'… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people,… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match.… — Gautam Gambhir Copy Share Image
We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make this suggestion… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. — Euripides Copy Share Image
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A… — Andre Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
“Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Sometimes God does something dramatic to get our attention. That's what happened to me in 1975. My family and I were enjoying… — Loren Cunningham Copy Share Image
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I've always liked to be on my own, since I was young. I like the sound of a quiet place. It helps… — Caster Semenya Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient. — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image