If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well. — William Feather Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place. — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I don't really like L.A. much anymore. It's a hideous city. The weather's nice sometimes. It's just too crowded for me and… — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once. — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth… — John Green Copy Share Image
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
Israel is proud to be Jordan's partner and to stand at Jordan's side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The maha-mantra was prescribed for modern times because of the fast-paced nature of things today. Even when people do get into a… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
It was also, however, a favorite place for novices to stand and wait for innocent students to slip up by talking too… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A lot of loud people have been talking over the years; they have these huge voices but don't say much. I'm sure… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind;… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
