I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you… In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we… — Jay Weatherill Copy Share Image
To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind,… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it:… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people.… — Albert Einstein 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
So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas,… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
“The sweetest melody that plays on starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening ears and calming to beleaguering fears,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
I live 10 miles outside of Bath, where there are about 10 houses. So it's nice and peaceful and quiet. Keeps your… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
I live a very quiet life well under the radar and I drive a tiny car, own a cottage, that's about it.… — Brenda Fricker Copy Share Image
This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn't Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap - not… — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live… — Shauna Singh Baldwin Copy Share Image
If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think… — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet,… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
“She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America.They’re not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school,… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is… — Barbara Hulanicki Copy Share Image
I never spoke out as a kid, I was never good at it as a kid, I was always too shy but… — George Groves Copy Share Image
