“Sometimes I want a quiet life other times I want to go a little bit fucking Gatsby.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“...his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.” — Jean Plaidy 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
“A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all . . .” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Anything for a quiet life; as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed… — Lin Johnson Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When I was actively working, I had more than my share of limelight. But over the last many years I have been… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
“This is how power works. The ones at the top make use of ideals, beliefs and money to entice those below them… — Chan Ho-Kei Copy Share Image
“The fox and the nightingale made a quiet life together. A lesser creature might have held Koja’s mistakes against him, might have… — Leigh Bardugo 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
There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to… — James Norton Copy Share Image
“the Sorcerer’s Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I have lived recklessly, gambled my income away at the horse races, gone whoring, have been more drunk than sober, beaten men… — Andrea Zuvich Copy Share Image
“Emma had always considered herself to be possessed of a few fortunate qualities, offset by the same number of drawbacks. She was… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy - very unhappy… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Strax gave a snort of amusement. ‘It is surely a very simple choice. One option is for a quiet life with honest… — Justin Richards Copy Share Image
“She pushed the book towards them, and Harry and Ron read: The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“When they are young, they would be old, and old, young.{244} Princes commend a private life; private men itch after honour: a… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
Listen, I've done a lot of TV shows, people honestly don't care about me. Sometimes that's annoying because I wished that people… — Charlotte Crosby Copy Share Image
My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At… — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Part 7: A Quiet Life “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.… — George Ilian Copy Share Image
I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because… — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“It takes me living an intentional, mindful, and quiet life to hear or see what’s here. Great art doesn’t necessarily create something… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
Fame doesn't get to me. I lead quite a quiet life on the whole - I will go to an awards ceremony… — Suranne Jones 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
“When watching the news, it’s so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don’t want… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“They weren’t such bad fellows, Hartmann thought. He had mixed with their type all his life: patriotic, conservative, clannish. For them, Hitler… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family. — David Silva Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask questions — that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, and, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image