Pride Quote by Nicole Krauss

“when things weren’t going well he carried on long muttered conversations with himself, but when he was particularly pleased about something he was inclined…

— James Herriot

“His silence wasn’t empty—it hummed with something unspoken, something that brushed against my soul like a soft current, altering the very rhythm of my…

— Alma Brooke

“No, it wasn't the attention he needed. He just wanted to create something and know that it mattered to someone, that he mattered. That…

— Marie Lu

“Jobs barked at him.”

— Walter Isaacson

“So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.”

— Tracy Kidder

“And grumbling, he does it, in front of everybody, which is how I know he is utterly and completely mine.”

— Jenny Han

“And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.”

— Kirsty Eagar

“Of course there had been clues. A bite of the lip. An indrawn breath. Wrinkled brows and shrugged shoulders. A few false starts at…

— Zoe York

“He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

“I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds.”

— Miriam Toews

“You could barely understand the man, he was that posh. It was not so much speech as modulated yawning.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.”

— Alice Steinbach