Inspirational Quote by Thomas Gray

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the…

— Thomas Gray

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect…

— Laini Taylor

“And yet I could still hear them. As if some part of their essence had evaporated into the air, become a part of this…

— Joanne Harris

“Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep…

— Bram Stoker

“They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth,…

— Karen Maitland

“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be,…

— Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

— Libba Bray

“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of…

— Richard Wright

“All ten years of my trepidations, Each and every sleepless night, I placed them all in a quiet word And I voiced it –…

— Anna Akhmatova

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their…

— Tove Jansson

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

— Mickey Hart

How noiseless falls the foot of time!

— William Spencer