The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.” — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was… — John Buchan 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
I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises... — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older. — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor—and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I’m not what you want.” The words came out strangled because a lump had formed in Maia’s throat. Jack’s brows drew together… — Victoria Paige Copy Share Image
“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically;… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
“Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“But then the cowboy standing in front of you smiles gently and says, “You sure?” Those two simple words opened up the… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
